The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford is planning a special tribute to Bob Slaughter one week from today when it next marks the D-Day anniversary. Slaughter died yesterday at age 87, and as WFIR’s Evan Jones reports, he will be remembered as the guiding force behind the memorial’s very existence.

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