I'll post an email at work tomorrow, I will be surprised if a quarter get it right.
Not many of those heroes left, I can’t imagine the hell they went through....
I had a neighbor in the 70’s that was part of the first landing group. He made it off the beach and a couple of miles inland before he caught a machine gun bullet in the shin. His war was over. He always wore shorts in the summer and wore his wound like a badge of honor. Tough old guy.
All the dads in my neighborhood were either WW2 or Korea vets. A bunch of hard asses, but it made us better kids.
“Not many of those heroes left...”
No there aren’t.
Bradford Freeman, the last of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Band of Brothers) shuffled off this mortal coil last year on June 6th.
We’re even starting to lose the Vietnam veterans at a quick clip.