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Les soldats américains vétérans de la 3rd Infantry Division Gerald Papin, Charles Condren, John Shirley , Patrick Haegerty et leurs proches chantent l'hymne de leur pays lors de l'hommage rendu à Yves Barbier, coordinateur de la Résistance, à Vesoul.
Patricia Mirallès, Secretary of State for Veterans and Remembrance, visits the Shoah Memorial in Paris to show her solidarity after red hands were spray-painted on the "Wall of the Righteous". IMAGES
Prince Harry joins a game of seated volleyball with army veterans during a tour in Nigeria to promote his Invictus Games. The Duke of Sussex arrived with his wife Meghan on Friday in the capital, Abuja, where they visited a school for an event on mental health for students in a trip that also saw the prince meet wounded Nigerian soldiers in the northwest. IMAGES
Prince Harry arrives at St Paul's Cathedral in London to attend the ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games, which are held for wounded, injured, and sick service personnel and veterans. IMAGES
King Charles III begins the second day of his visit to Kenya with a visit to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Kariokor Cemetery to honour Africans who died for Britain in two world wars. Charles and Queen Camilla meet with war veterans, shaking their hands and chatting with them. The visit comes a day after the British Monarch, in a speech at a state banquet, acknowledged there was "no excuse" for colonial-era abuses during Britain's rule of the East African country. IMAGES
The first of nine Senegalese army veterans, aged 85 to 96 who fought for France, arrive in Dakar after the French state dropped a condition stipulating that they must live in France for half the year or lose their French army pension. Following the decision in January, the veterans can now return home for good and continue receiving their monthly allowance of 950 euros ($1,000). IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron presides over a decoration ceremony at the French embassy in Washington, DC, presenting US veterans with Legion d'Honneur medals and thanking them for their service. IMAGES
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