Peter A. Thomas of Naples wrote "Omaha Beach" ten years after the June 6, 1944 landing at Omaha Beach to remember his fallen comrades. Thomas read the poem in public for the first time at a national D-Day memorial ceremony in Bedford, Va., last week. OMAHA BEACH by Peter Thomas Pvt. 1st Infantry Division When we went in the Beach had been taken The living fought on -- the dead forsaken We were dropped into water up to our shoulders We waded in -- a group of green soldiers Onto that thin strip of beach So many had tried to...