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From left standing: South San Francisco Vice Mayor Mark Addiego, French Consulate General Florian Cardinaux and San Francisco Fire Chief Dean Crispen gather during Legion of Honor presentation. Seated are Ed Bordenave, left, and his sister Jeanette Saccheri.
There are not many living veterans that were part of the D-Day invasion in Normandy in 1944 but, at 102 years old, Ed Bordenave is one of them.
The South San Francisco resident was presented with the French Legion of Honor medal — the highest medal distinction in the country — on Oct. 7 by representatives from the French Embassy during a ceremony at his residence at the Westborough Royale assisted living facility.
“At our darkest hours, at a time when continental Europe had fallen to tyranny, thousands of young men and women from across the Atlantic risked and sacrificed their lives for our freedom,” said Florian Cardinaux, the French Consulate General who presented the award. “Edmund Bordenave from San Francisco was one of them.”
Bordenave grew up in San Francisco and joined the military at a young age. By the time of the Normandy invasion, he was only 19 years old. After the war, he joined the San Francisco Fire Department, where he was a firefighter for 33 years. San Francisco Fire Chief Dean Crispen said he worked with many Vietnam War veterans when he first started his career and was always impressed by their demeanor.
“The one thing that I’ll never forget is the calm that they always displayed. They really didn’t like to talk about it, but many times when I got them to open up, they would tell me that with the things they went through in battle, a little fire wasn’t going to upset them,” Crispen said during the ceremony. “They really guided us as younger members of the department.”
Bordenave said he was “very surprised” to learn last week that he was being presented with France’s prestigious medal. Westborough Royale Activities Director Eric Ribeiro said he was “very deserving of the award that is being presented to him.”
The medal represents “unfading courage and unflinching determination,” Cardinaux said.
“You took part in one of the most decisive moments of the war,” he added. “France remembers. The French people remember.”
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This esteemed man is a WW II vet, not a Vietnam vet as mentioned in the fire chief's comment. Also, the online headline spells San Francisco wrong for heaven's sake.
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