Amen to that. My Dad, 89, was on Omaha Beach, and then on thru Europe to The Battle of The Bulge. He could still kick my butt.
My dad was at Utah beach... I guess that was lucky because that beach was not as contested.
However, he said that about a mile inland, German snipers were very busy and you had to walk bent over at the waist. He said he walked like that for so long, that he thought he’d have to walk like that for the rest of his life.
Anyway, he followed Patton across Europe to Germany. He had a lot of stories.
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