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(mellow music) – Right, as soon as we’ve had some grub, I’ll take you for a spin along the front.

And when we get back, I think they’ve got a male stripper for you.

– [Wife] What?

– I made that last bit up.

– I want to go to France.

– What are you on about?

– The trip to the beaches, D-Day?

I’m really sorry, Bernie, you left it too late.

– I couldn’t leave you all on your own.

– Unless… You have to.

– [Adele] Well, where is he?

He’s disappeared off the face of the Earth.

– [Wife] He’s in France.

– Bonjour.

– At 90?

– Well, he has done it before, only then, of course, they were shooting at him.

– [Reporter] So determined to honor his fallen comrade, the D-Day veteran made a break for the coast.

And, mounted what has now been dubbed the great escape.

– [Bernie] Who are these people?

– They’re Germans.

– Oh.

This was your beach?

– Yeah.

(uplifting music) – Me too.

(uplifting music) – At your age Adele, you cling to every second, and every second is worth clinking to.

– I’m sorry really, I’ve been in the papers, I’ve been on TV.

90-year-old coffin dodger… Honors the glorious dead.

What a waste.

Eh?

What a waste.

– [Wife] If you want to honor your friend Bernie, you’ve spent 70 years loving me.

We have never wasted one second of our time together.

(mellow music)

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