Hero's welcome for runaway D-Day veteran
After the campaign came the homecoming.
The D-Day veteran who slipped out of his care home and made his own way to France to honour comrades who fell on the Normandy beaches received a hero's welcome when he returned home on Saturday.
Bernard Jordan, 89, was greeted by cheering staff at the care home in Hove after making the journey back from northern France overnight.
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Emerging from the taxi returning him to the care home on Saturday morning, Mr Jordan walked slowly inside, barely able to raise an arm to wave to waiting photographers.
Staff sang "for he's a jolly good fellow" as he made his way into the building, where Union Flags had been draped from walls and ceilings in honour of Mr Jordan and his comrades.
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What a wonderful, inspiring man, who has captivated everyone the world over.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
Cher
