and bill gladden, he's one of them special people.ose his foot and spent the next three years in hospital on his return home undergoing several operations. whenever the veterans revisit the towns they liberated during the second world war, to this day, they're treated as heroes. new friendships are forged with the descendants of those they saved. diana and victor have travelled from the netherlands just to be here tonight. veterans are just a symbol of our freedom. it's a big gratitude for them to fight for ourfreedom. and bill is such a friendly and nice, sweet person and so easy to talk to, so, well, it's two sides' enjoyment. so we meet him in normandy, we meet him in arnhem at the market garden commemorations on 5th may. so... so you weren't going to miss his 100th birthday? we're not going... not for the world. no, no, no, no, no. so we flew in this morning just to be here tonight, bill has always been a keen artist, drawing pictures for his comrades in the war, and these days, depicting scenes from the battle for normandy. he ho

and bill gladden, he's one of them special people.loor. bill had feared he would lose his foot and spent the next three years in hospital on his return home undergoing several operations. whenever the veterans revisit the towns they liberated during the second world war, to this day, they're treated as heroes. new friendships are forged with the descendants of those they saved. diana and victor have travelled from the netherlands just to be here tonight. veterans are just a symbol of our freedom. it's a big gratitude for them to fight for ourfreedom. and bill is such a friendly and nice, sweet person and so easy to talk to, so, well, it's two sides' enjoyment. so we meet him in normandy, we meet him in arnhem at the market garden commemorations on the 5th of may. so... so you weren't going to miss his 100th birthday? we're not going... not for the world. no, no, no, no, no. so we flew in this morning just to be here tonight, bill has always been a keen artist, drawing pictures for his comrades in the war, and these days, depicting sce