Veteran Reg Pye finds the French girl he has been looking for since WWII

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  • Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2022
  • Thanks to a campaign launched by the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans in June 2022 to find the young girl Reg had shared his food with in Normandy in 1944, they have finally been reunited.
    Film courtesy of Emma Newton

Комментарии • 84

  • @eligebrown8998
    @eligebrown8998 11 месяцев назад +10

    And he brought her a jam sandwich. Some of these storys id pay to see in a theater.

  • @SIG442
    @SIG442 Год назад +82

    I might be a big man, but this made me tear up. Lovely people.

    • @briangleason5597
      @briangleason5597 11 месяцев назад +1

      Simply lovely. Where me red wine.. rŕr me matey

    • @lindasadler994
      @lindasadler994 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@briangleason5597 You can be big, tall or short....your heart has no bounderies.

    • @Markos581973
      @Markos581973 10 месяцев назад

      your not big, just fat

  • @58landman
    @58landman 9 месяцев назад +4

    What a sweet guy. His kindness is Godly and she's still a pretty girl! God bless all of these people.

  • @RYROSmetaldefender
    @RYROSmetaldefender Год назад +82

    I love all of these veteran stories. Its amazing.

  • @ruthfischer4177
    @ruthfischer4177 11 месяцев назад +5

    Great reunion

  • @kovacsannadr.rekasine2286
    @kovacsannadr.rekasine2286 Год назад +57

    Unbelievable, that they found each other…

    • @nathalievee3473
      @nathalievee3473 Год назад +3

      Emotional meeting. It required nearly 3 months of intensive research to find Huguette.

    • @kovacsannadr.rekasine2286
      @kovacsannadr.rekasine2286 Год назад +3

      Yes, it wasn’t easy to find that old woman in France…
      Only her name was known…
      The two old persons were so cute…
      God bless them!
      Greetings from Hungary! 🇭🇺👋

    • @nathalievee3473
      @nathalievee3473 Год назад +2

      @@kovacsannadr.rekasine2286 Greetings from Normandy!

    • @kovacsannadr.rekasine2286
      @kovacsannadr.rekasine2286 Год назад +1

      🤗🤗🤗

  • @adamneal9791
    @adamneal9791 11 месяцев назад +9

    My eyes watered the whole video.. To be able to hear this Hero's story/last wish was truly heart warming .

  • @lindasadler994
    @lindasadler994 11 месяцев назад +7

    Love has no labels....he has such a big heart to return and find her.

  • @zie9171
    @zie9171 Год назад +8

    The medals that gentleman earned. Incredible.

  • @toomignon
    @toomignon Год назад +24

    One of my favorite stories about my unusual French name “Mignon” (I’m American, so super unusual here) involves a US Army Veteran in around 1986 when I was 20 years old. I attended a veterans event as part of my job and introduced myself to one of the WWII veterans and as he took the hand I had offered, he held it so gently and got a dreamy look on his face and looked right through me into the past..….”I knew a Mignon once….during the War….in France.” It was so sweet and he obviously had such lovely memories of that young lady. He profusely thanked me for bringing those memories back.

    • @loganstroganoff1284
      @loganstroganoff1284 11 месяцев назад +2

      Is your nickname filet?

    • @lindickison3055
      @lindickison3055 10 месяцев назад +2

      More likely "Little Flower" 🌼

    • @DonnellOkafor-pd7yn
      @DonnellOkafor-pd7yn 6 дней назад +1

      I live in Montreal and knew many girls with the name Mignon although Manon is much more common.
      Tu parle Francais?

    • @toomignon
      @toomignon 6 дней назад

      @@lindickison3055 There is a flower called "Mignonette" but that is not the meaning.
      Je parle un peu francais.
      About as well as my Spanish, but when I try to speak either, it comes out half and half, so never did conquer either. 😂

  • @Hannah_7777
    @Hannah_7777 Год назад +42

    I could not hear one word this dear man spoke. I wish I could hear his story

    • @richardpodnar5039
      @richardpodnar5039 Год назад +6

      I shot up the volume, and it was a bit clearer. He is quite soft-spoken.

    • @phantumbelly1319
      @phantumbelly1319 Год назад

      @@richardpodnar5039try enabling closed captions for this problem as well

    • @rubemaragao2368
      @rubemaragao2368 Год назад +2

      I think we don't need hear any word. A picture is worth more than a million words.

    • @deborahlehman8617
      @deborahlehman8617 Год назад +2

      No close captioning on this either?

    • @apebass2215
      @apebass2215 Год назад +2

      He shared his jam sandwich with her.

  • @mrs.m.pennycuick7876
    @mrs.m.pennycuick7876 10 месяцев назад +1

    That was how the French treated starving children! How lovely for them to meet! Lovely story and a lovely soldier/human being!

  • @jmc8076
    @jmc8076 Год назад +10

    Please turn on CC for older viewers and others who need it. Thank you.

  • @emmsue1053
    @emmsue1053 Год назад +10

    How lovely, there must be thousands of stories like theirs.

  • @trevoroutim8519
    @trevoroutim8519 Год назад +9

    Beautiful story and reunion.

  • @lyntwo
    @lyntwo 11 месяцев назад +4

    God Bless them all.

  • @internetguts
    @internetguts 11 месяцев назад +5

    i love hearing human stories like this

  • @Dave0421
    @Dave0421 Год назад +9

    They need to caption his speaking as I couldn’t hear him

  • @anonymousr1918
    @anonymousr1918 Год назад +6

    That was bloody beautiful

  • @Abhi_say000
    @Abhi_say000 Год назад +17

    Unbelievable, but it is true. Heart Touching🥺🥰

  • @kendebaba1
    @kendebaba1 Год назад +13

    wonderful story

  • @GiftFromGod4U
    @GiftFromGod4U Год назад +4

    Precious BEYOND words.... 💕💕💕💕💕

  • @ginettechiverton7113
    @ginettechiverton7113 Год назад +5

    We met again. Cheers.😊☮️

  • @wardmacleod3765
    @wardmacleod3765 10 месяцев назад +2

    A very touching story.

  • @SuperPresidentBeefbroth
    @SuperPresidentBeefbroth Год назад +5

    she has/had beautiful eyes.

  • @acox3527
    @acox3527 Год назад +5

    What an amazing end to his search

  • @lindickison3055
    @lindickison3055 10 месяцев назад +2

    Lest we forget.,......we must remember that some gave all❤

  • @JaneDoe-ql7sc
    @JaneDoe-ql7sc 11 месяцев назад +2

    my only wish - that he had asked his daughter to hold the bread for a moment so he could clasp her hand & give her a nice warm hug, rather than using the bread as a shield. But those were more reserved times he had grown up in

  • @terrybardy2848
    @terrybardy2848 11 месяцев назад +2

    Love does transcend over decades.💞 Thank you for this wonderful story!👏👏

  • @larryburton9369
    @larryburton9369 Год назад +2

    Such lovely stories great

  • @3kneeboi
    @3kneeboi Год назад +2

    ❤❤❤❤ that was such a touching story

  • @beverlyshane8433
    @beverlyshane8433 Год назад +6

    How sweet.

  • @rolandpotier9261
    @rolandpotier9261 Год назад +4

    Merveilleuses retrouvailles ! 🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😁😁😁😁😁

  • @Amy.PCB.home.
    @Amy.PCB.home. Год назад +4

    I could not hear him speaking very well on video even with turning up volume.

  • @craigfowler7098
    @craigfowler7098 11 месяцев назад +2

    What a sweet story

  • @ewencameron1548
    @ewencameron1548 Год назад

    Wonderful so much

  • @ryanbotha9775
    @ryanbotha9775 Год назад

    Lovely story..

  • @rebeccarothfuss-ym3gs
    @rebeccarothfuss-ym3gs 10 месяцев назад +1

    How nice.

  • @donkinzett3961
    @donkinzett3961 Год назад +6

    Got to stop cutting onions

  • @GemPotagueule
    @GemPotagueule Год назад +2

    Trop mignon!
    Bien contente pour eux deux !

  • @overthewebb
    @overthewebb Год назад +11

    It is both beautiful and tragic, I'm sure they both married other people and had kids etc, but if life was just, and I know it isn't, they maybe should have married each other and made another life story. Maybe I'm an old romantic or an idiot, but it seems life robbed them of their potential happiness together

  • @sunshineandwarmth
    @sunshineandwarmth Год назад +16

    WHEN will ppl filming vids learn NOT to play music while ppl are speaking. GRRRRR.

  • @MA_808
    @MA_808 11 месяцев назад +2

    if only to be born unto this generation ...alas

  • @Sonic-dogmagic
    @Sonic-dogmagic 10 месяцев назад +1

    😢❤

  • @characters7568
    @characters7568 10 месяцев назад +1

    Ahh, I wanted them to get married...

  • @Lotuslaful
    @Lotuslaful Год назад +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @hugojames85
    @hugojames85 9 месяцев назад

    And she said: "Get lost, creep!"

  • @AKHWJ3ST
    @AKHWJ3ST 10 месяцев назад

    It seems that he was more into that meeting so long ago than she was. She didn't even remember it! What's so romantic about that?

  • @johnbell2677
    @johnbell2677 Год назад

    I bet ole Reg has got many a grand yarn to tell, got a fair load o medals right there

  • @GemPotagueule
    @GemPotagueule Год назад +1

    Depending where they were, ppl had jam, or mustard, or cheese.
    For example: during the war, my granny oftenly exchanged her jam sandwiches against mustard ones (I'm the same xD love my bread and mustard)

    • @georgielancaster1356
      @georgielancaster1356 10 месяцев назад

      What country?
      Cheese varied in UK, at worst, I think it was 1 or 2 oz a week. But by the later part of the war, vegetarians got an extra 3 oz of cheese a week. About time!

  • @rene29200
    @rene29200 Год назад +1

    ❤😎😻👍🥂

  • @echo71515
    @echo71515 11 месяцев назад

    You didn't like pilchards, I brought mackerel instead.
    Hilarious!

  • @mho...
    @mho... Год назад

    ooh yeah, now draw her like the french girl she is 😆

  • @mrs.m.pennycuick7876
    @mrs.m.pennycuick7876 10 месяцев назад

    The French Resistance, with the help of the Brits, male and female, were brave!

  • @GemPotagueule
    @GemPotagueule Год назад +1

    3:16 Mdr il se fait marcher dessus pour la bonne cause.

  • @lordpaul0420
    @lordpaul0420 10 месяцев назад

    Him: "I finally found you after all of these years!".
    Her: "Um...I'm a lesbian".

  • @drewishgaminginc.3942
    @drewishgaminginc.3942 11 месяцев назад +2

    I mean it's a really nice story and all but man it's a bit weird that a 20 year old dude fell in love with a 14 year old girl without even being able to speak to her

    • @georgielancaster1356
      @georgielancaster1356 10 месяцев назад

      Some girls get tall and mature fast. When I was 8 years old, I was offered a cash job instructing horse riding. I wasn't even asked my age, because they thought I was easily 15.
      I had worked there over a year before he found out. Occasionally, it led to a few blushes but I knew no different life.

    • @kenfrievalt7826
      @kenfrievalt7826 10 месяцев назад

      Reminds me of Elvis dating presilla

  • @learnfrenchwithbruce
    @learnfrenchwithbruce Год назад +1

    parler francais hahaha

  • @KishaAmenio06x
    @KishaAmenio06x Год назад +1

    man, wish they could have seen each other sooner, get married, have kids and grandkids! what a waste!