Jacksonville, Fl \u2014 82 years later, Jacksonville joins Americans on Saturday to remember those who died on D-Day. <\/p>\n
Nearly 160,000 Allied troops took part in the Normandy landings. <\/p>\n
The We Can Be Heroes Foundation is hosting a D-Day Remembrance at 1:30 pm<\/a> at the Salem Centre Auditorium. Proceeds benefit the Young Marines Program. <\/p>\n \u201cBlack Creek Young Marines have been accepted to march in the national Pearl Harbor Day parade in Hawaii. This is an expensive proposition to get them there. I mean, the airfare alone is over $1,000.\u201d, said Beth Heath, president of the We Can Be Heroes Foundation. <\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s event will honor retired Navy Captain Gregory Streeter, who spearheaded a project to get the only Navy D-Day memorial now at Utah Beach. <\/p>\n \u201cIt was a long process of raising millions of dollars and finding the just-right sculptor, and finding the rare materials to build this humongous statue.\u201d, Heath said. <\/p>\n They\u2019ll also honor the late Frank Purpura, a D-Day Purple Heart recipient. At 18, he was assigned driver of a Higgins Boat. <\/p>\n He was hit by shrapnel near his eye, rushed out and patched up quickly, and made 50 more trips driving the Higgins Boats to deliver troops. <\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s event will also feature a movie documenting the aging men of World War II and the dedicated group of Navy Veterans who set out to make sure their sacrifice would never be forgotten.<\/p>\n Buy tickets here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n [\u00a0Read more local news from WOKV<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville, Fl \u2014 82 years later, Jacksonville joins Americans on Saturday to remember those who died on D-Day.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":845417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[18000,345714,5229,345719,345717,345713,17998,3188,723,345715,345716,7310,17999,137009,7325,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,345712,345710,345711,345718],"class_list":["post-845416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-18000","tag-allied-troops","tag-america","tag-beth-heath","tag-black-creek-young-marines","tag-d-day","tag-duval","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-frank-purpura","tag-gregory-streeter","tag-jacksonville","tag-ne-florida","tag-normandy","tag-northeast-florida","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-utah-beach","tag-we-can-be-heroes","tag-we-can-be-heroes-foundation","tag-young-marines"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116695845349621864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}