Did You Remember?

[BettyO]

Thank you all for remembering D-Day! What a real honor, Bill -- these guys are the greatest. I can't help but remember my dad who served as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne and was dropped over Normandy and Sicily, fought in North Africa (and yes, was in Casablanca - don't know about "Rick's Cafe" though!) and fought in France. He was wounded twice; I have his purple hearts and he had huge scar on his leg and another on his left arm. I once asked him what it felt like to be shot. He told me that at first the wound/limb went numb - then it "burned like fire...." He never spoke much about the occurrences much and I later found out that most veterans didn't speak much of it.

   

Dropping over Normandy - one of these is my dad, I'm sure....