Around 14,000 Canadian soldiers took park in the invasion of Normandy.
At 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, the museum is hosting a free, public gathering outside the main entrance at the Eternal Flame monument.
Guest speakers are expected to give remarks, and the concert choir from the adjacent Masters Academy & College is scheduled to perform. "We will have one veteran … who was actually in Italy at the time of D-Day," said Dave Peabody, manager of the Military Museums. "Hopefully, he will be speaking, but as he is getting up there, we'll see how he's doing tomorrow morning."In the evening, military historian and author David Bercuson is giving a lecture about the role Canadian soldiers played in the Normandy invasion.Tickets to the lecture and film screening are sold out.A family returns to France to trace the ambush that changed a Canadian soldier's lifeBrendan Coulter is a reporter for CBC Calgary.
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