A salute to those who came before
Air Force Reserve Maj. Gen. Wallace “Wade” Farris, Jr., salutes with American World War II veterans during the playing of “Taps” June 5, 2012, in Saint Mere Eglise, France. American and allied troops marched through the streets of this Normandy village leading up to an official ceremony commemorating the 68th Anniversary of the Normandy D-Day invasion. Leadership from the Army and U.S. Air Force, German military and local French elected officials joined with the veterans to lay ceremonial wreaths at the foot of an invasion memorial in the village. Saint Mere Eglise lays claim to fame of being one of the first villages in the Normandy region to be liberated by Allied forces in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944. Farris commands the AF Reserve’s 22nd Air Force and is based at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Collier)
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