Posted by JerryS on June 06, 2011 at 20:19:09 from (65.0.22.252):
In Reply to: D Day posted by John T on June 06, 2011 at 13:32:11:
I have an older friend (90s) who was in the water at 6:30 that morning (first wave). Combat engineers. He's told me some of what he went through. Said that seeing "Saving Private Ryan" was just like being there again.
Month or so ago I contacted the "military writer" for our local paper and suggested that he interview this man for a D-Day remembrance story. I pointed out that only about 50,000 men went ashore in that first assault, and if you count the years and do the math, you realize that today this man is a member of a very, very small and rapidly diminishing fraternity. Maybe a thousand left, probably a lot less?
Anyway, the "military writer" didn't show a lot of interest, but even so I opened my paper this morning hoping that he'd followed through on it. Not a damn word.
Hope the younger generation enjoys this wonderful new world they're making for themselves.
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