Thanks for posting this, when I read this and hear this, I get a tear in my eye and the hair on my neck stands up. My grandfather was at Ohama Beach at D-Day and he went to St. Lo., the Bulge in the Ardennes, Cologne and Buchenwald Concentration Camp. My father still has that letter from Eisenhower that he got from his father. BTW, a good special featuring D-Day to watch is “What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?” where the Peanuts Gang is in France and Linus tells the story of D-Day and then Flander’s Fields in WWI. BTW, the radio broadcast to Europe from General Eisenhower to the people of Europe, I get the same feeling too.
I often ended up as a dishwasher our country club. I noticed the chef always limped as he moved around the kitchen. When he saw my puzzled look, he said he got the limp from a wound received when he was with the Rangers at Pointe De Hoc.