An African veteran stands during a special ceremony in Dakar, capital of Senegal, August 23, 2005 to commemorate the African veterans who gave their lives for France's liberation and the victory of the anti-Fascist war. August 23 has become the national memory day of Senegal to mark the 1944 landing in Toulon in the south of France, which is considered to be the mark of African's participation in France's liberation. (People's Daily Photo)