D-Day veteran Bill Gladden shows a page in his scrap book, which is a piece of parachute that he embroidered with the Airborne logo, as he speaks at his home in Haverhill, England, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. Gladden spoke to the AP on the eve of his 100th birthday, he is a veteran of the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment, part of the British 6th Airborne Division, he landed by glider on the afternoon of D-Day, 6th June 1944 in Normandy. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)