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D-Day vet snubbed by French will go to Normandy thanks to donations

The 90-year-old Staten Island ­D-Day veteran who learned the ungrateful French won’t pay his airfare to attend the invasion’s 70th-anniversary ceremony is planning to make his ­heroic return after all.

Felice John Tulli, who landed at Omaha Beach as an 18-year-old, will revisit the battleground thanks to an outpouring of support from friends and strangers who read of his predicament in last Sunday’s Post.

“You always lost somebody in those hedgerows,” he recalled at the beginning of the Memorial Day weekend, of his bloody march to Saint Lô. “There was a bond.”

Tulli was initially told that the French government promised Rep. Michael Grimm’s staff it would pay for him to travel to Sword Beach next month so he could attend a ceremony in which French President François Hollande is to honor vets with the Legion of Honor medal.