Bill Ryan, a veteran from Melbourne, Fla., answers reporters during an interview with Associated Press television prior to a ceremony held at the German Cemetery in La Cambe near Bayeux, France. The ceremony commemorated the 8000 German soldiers who are buried there. Bill Ryan was coming with the Firth Division from England when his boat was hit by a German shell, and he was brought unconscious on Omaha Beach on D-Day.
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