June 1, 2016
City Councilman John Chapman and Chair of the Alexandria-Caen Sister Cities Committee, Jennifer Reading, at the Memorial de Caen during D-Day commemorative ceremonies in 2014.
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It was 80 years ago when Bill McNamara joined the National Guard in 1936. He was just 15 years old then and by the time he was 23, he was the youngest major in Europe, working for the Stars and Stripes newspaper and leading a six-man detachment across Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944.
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