Fog Blog 75th D-Day Ceremony Log:

CANADA ALONG WITH THE U.S......BRITAIN AND FRANCE....ETC......CELEBRATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY!......It was something Jean Trempe felt called to do.He needed help, though — someone to hold the 94-year-old former Bren gunner and artilleryman steady as he dipped his foot in the pounding surf of Juno Beach one last time."My heart was telling me to go and walk in the water," the former corporal with the Régiment de Maisonneuve de Montreal said today.Trempe was among a handful of old soldiers who chose to step into the waves off Normandy today — waters which, three-quarters of a century ago, were choked with blood, bodies and wreckage.He said he knew the moment would reawaken long-sleeping ghosts of the humid, violent summer of 1944. But it was a price he was prepared to pay to honour a youth spent on the knife's edge of a world war — an experience that seemed incomprehensible to the thousands of people of all ages who gathered today to commemorate the triumph of the D-Day landings 75 years ago.