On 8th June I sang for 22 US veterans in the Abbaye aux Hommes, the city hall of Caen.

Best Defense Foundation, supported by Delta Airlines, Michelin, Next Gen, and a warm and wonderful team of volunteers, arranged the tour in a specially chartered plane from Atlantis to Deauville – a rare event as the airport does not usually receive trans-Atlantic flights.

The motto of the foundation is “Taking care of the ones who took care of us.”

Cpl. Jack Myers, Company B, 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion, attached with the 104th and 42nd Infantry Division

SSgt Jake M. Larson – “Papa Jake,” G3, V Corps

SSgt George K. Mullins, Co. C, 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, author of “Foxholes”

Perhaps the greatest honour of all was being asked to lead “The Star-Spangled Banner” for the veterans’ farewell dinner.

And the memory that will stay with me forever was Jack Myers pure joy when he asked me to sing “How Great Thou Art.”