Ceremony Marks 73rd Anniversary of D-Day Landings

Defense.gov ^ | 6/5/2017 | Army Spc. Kelsey M Little

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It took him years before he opened up. In the 70’s as a kid I was reading a book on the battle history of the US Navy in WWII and he was sitting on the couch next to me and saw a picture of a battleship firing and he recognized it, the USS Texas and asked to look at the book and then told me he went by it on a landing craft when it fired it’s main guns and never said anything else, just clammed up.

Eventually by the late 1980’ and 90’s he begin to talk about his experiences some times. When he would open up listening to him and watching him relive it was emotional as you could see the pain he was reliving.

The last time I saw him I thanked him again for what he had done and he sort of acted embarrassed he was being thanked and then choked up about the ones that didn’t come home.