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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)




