Pandemic makes for lonely D-Day observance in Normandy

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Compared to last year, when many tens of thousands came to the northern French beaches of Normandy to cheer the dwindling number of veterans and celebrate three-quarters of a century of liberation from Nazi oppression, the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions turned this year's D-Day remembrance into one of the eeriest ever.