D-Day veterans attend a commemorative badge ceremony at the Regional Council in Caen June 4, 2014. Some 3,000 veterans are among those attending ceremonies across the northern French coastline where Allied forces landed in the largest seaborne invasion in history June 6, 1944 to help speed up the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War Two. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann (FRANCE - Tags: ANNIVERSARY CONFLICT POLITICS)