Normandy 70 Years Later..

[mockingbird812]

It was an honor to have met and broke bread with your Dad, Eddie. Eddie's Dad wreaked havoc on the Axis <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="text-decoration: underline">after</span></span></span> D-Day too!!! My Father-in-law was in the 1st wave at Juno beach with the Canadian Combat Engineers and was wounded but survived - he passed in '98.

[jannes_z-28]

Here is a great story about an 91 year old hero that ran away from his nursing home to go to Normandy for the ceremonies.




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ng-friends.html

Jan