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In reply to the discussion: 75 years ago my 20 year old dad was dropped in Normandy [View all]MaryMagdaline
(6,853 posts)6. Thank you rurallib
Another sacrifice we learned about was the loss of my mothers fiancé, her high school sweetheart. The destruction of one life meant my mother met and married my father instead of her high school sweetheart and all of us were born. His death caused a breakdown in my mother. Per my aunt, she was never the same person.
My parents never dodged the issue of war. It meant certain death to many and was almost never justified.
Thank you for remembering the dead. They deserved their lives as much as my parents did. And glad your FIL lived through it as well. Living through meant we all had a chance to be born (your spouse included).
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I am SO glad you corrected me. It would be so embarrassing to learn later that I posted
MaryMagdaline
Jun 2019
#17
I've never gone there. My best friend has a house in France, not terribly far from Normandy.
MaryMagdaline
Jun 2019
#15