[IncPen]

My father and his friends served honorably in WWII. I have such great respect for the work he and all of those men and women did without question.

Delbert, you are one of them, and I thank you. It is because of you that my children will live in freedom.

[GreyWolf]

Thank you all for your kind words. Before I went off to the Navy back in the 60s, I lived with Delbert and his family for awhile and got to know him fairly well. He is a quiet, non-assuming type person who spent his career working in a steel mill, and never talked about his time in the Army even though it was fairly well known that he had seen some pretty rough times over there. I was shocked and swelled with pride yesterday when an aunt sent me a copy of this article, as I realized what a great person I was privledged to have known. I haven't seen Delbert for many years but I know that he approaches every day the same way he viewed those days at Normandy. "It's a job somebody has to do so it might as well be me". The world would be a lot better off if more people had that attitude.