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With the dramatic Normandy coast at his back, US President Joe Biden said the US soldiers who fought their way onto the French beaches 80 years ago to combat the tyranny of German leader Adolf Hitler would expect their modern-day counterparts to do the same. “As we gather here today, it’s not just to honour those who showed such remarkable bravery that day June 6, 1944,” Biden told those gathered for the sombre ceremony. “It’s to listen to the echo of their voices. To hear them. Because they are summoning us. They’re asking us what will we do.” The soldiers storming those beaches who risked th…