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 \u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/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":2,"featured_media":296179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[796,124816,124821,124819,124815,794,28,124817,124818,116,118,117,795,25559,349,124814,124812,124813,124820],"class_list":["post-296178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-796","tag-allied-troops","tag-beth-heath","tag-black-creek-young-marines","tag-d-day","tag-duval","tag-florida","tag-frank-purpura","tag-gregory-streeter","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-ne-florida","tag-normandy","tag-northeast-florida","tag-utah-beach","tag-we-can-be-heroes","tag-we-can-be-heroes-foundation","tag-young-marines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}