I met a D-day landing vet one time. He was a quiet, pleasant man and only offered the fact after I asked what he did during the war. Strange, after he told me, I didn't know what to say... like I didn't have the right to talk to someone like that. Very humbling.
Myself,, as well as most of the males in our family are/were Vets. Of the 14 of us who served,, we've only had (1) casualty.
RIP; Sgt Fred (Freddie) Phillips
Normandy 6/6/44.
My father enlisted in the Navy at the age of 17. Needed parents permission to do so. Served in the South Pacific during the Island campaigns; spent time on the beaches during the landings. Most of his high school buddies were drafted in the Army and many were killed during the D-Day landings in Europe. Took my father to see the movie "Saving Private Ryan" when it first came out in the theaters. He did not say too much about the movie after we saw it. Perhaps it brought back too many memories of his pals that did not make it home.
Not D-day but interesting.
https://sensingonline.blogspot.com/2022/05/
Some religious context in it but good anyway.
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