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Duppers

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7. My father was there on D-Day.
Thu Jun 7, 2018, 01:36 AM
Jun 2018

Lived thru it obviously. Later found and commandeered a deserted German truck with two dead Germans - Allies had already killed them.

Like many of the soldiers, he never spoke of the actual combat or his dead fellow Americans. Too painful, my guess. There was some probability that he could have had PTSD.

I remember my mother openly mocking soldiers with "shell shocked" as it was then called. She never comprehended what a battle this was and had no sympathy until many decades later when she visited the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia. The Memorial did a superb job with the small mockup of the historical scene. Their sound effects and the water pool rippling from "the tracer bullets" gave me chills. I couldn't help but cry viewing it.






Those men would not believe what has happened to this country today.

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