KILLEEN, Texas (KXXV) — Ten A&M-Central Texas students study abroad in London, York, and Canterbury this spring.

A&M-Central delegation met one of the last surviving D-Day veterans, Ken Cooke.

D-Day refers to the day on which a military operation begins, and it is famously associated with the Normandy landings (Operation Overlord) on June 6, 1944, during World War II.

Saw both historic stained glass and a more recent addition paying tribute to those WWII veterans.

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While touring St. Lawrence Church, the A&M-Central Texas group met 99-year-old Ken Cooke, one of the last surviving D-Day veterans. Cooke was just 18 when he landed in the first wave at Gold Beach as a conscripted private in the 7th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment.

“To have make the trip all the way from

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