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You see they've got their guns ready
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Yeah. Hiya, Maury. Hi there. Do you want me to put Felix out
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Yes. That's the walker. Right. Right. We're ready to run
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So how many in the party? Because I don't imagine I've got to tell this sad party
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Three drivers, three veterans. All right. Okay. I'll give you a call over the weekend, Maury. The only day I can do next week for lunch will be the Monday
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Well, I think I'm all right, but I'll check when we get back home
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Caleb? You're all heading off. Is it on Monday? Wednesday. Wednesday
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Do you go back quite frequently? I've been going back for about 20 years now
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The taxi charity come to us to pick us up at home, and they are marvellous
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And then they pick us up, they look after us as well, help us around and join in with us
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What they've actually done is to change our lives because they've stimulated us, taking us to places
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meeting new people. And this is what old people need. And how long have you been doing this for
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About 18 years now. There was an advert in one of the trade papers. I used to be in the army myself
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So I was a good fit. Yeah absolutely And it been fantastic ever since And this is a really special one isn it D is Oh D yes For me it changed my life There was a beautiful mansion house and that housed General Eisenhower General Montgomery
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and they were all sending all their communications down to us deep and underground
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As a vital part of what went on. I was 18 that time and landed ship
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It was 50% excitement because the excitement was there, just that little bit
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Well, that adrenaline of being part of something. The other 50% was, what was going on in it
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And so to be able to go back on D-Day and stand there and contemplate
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you get a real sense of what it must have been like. A relic of pastimes
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Oh my goodness, look at that. Have you seen this? Oh, yeah. And is that a picture of you
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That was me just a month before DJ. My son is 16, just about to be 17
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So when I went last year for the 80th anniversary, I'd been before, but I'd never been having myself a son
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a little bit younger than the young men that were running on the beach
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And suddenly it brought it home to me because obviously I got the sense of what my son would be like
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And it's really important for everybody else to remember never to forget, to contemplate
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I think everybody should go to the beaches but that's why we must never forget it
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not just out of respect but because it falls on us to make sure we make the right decisions
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to ensure that we don't put this generation through the same
