D-Day.... there are almost none left..

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6. My dad was in the Normandy Beach landing operation on DDay (would have been 107 today)

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I still have his Purple Heart and other medals. He was shot in the hand, but continued on with the military operation since there was no turning back. He was part of the army that crossed over to the blue and became the Air Force. After the battles and advances during DDay he participated in under General Patton, he continued on with a peacetime assignment in South America. He was then assigned to more war operations later in Korea.

on edit: his last years were sad. He suffered from alzheimers and had been a widow (Mom passed at an early age). He became involved with a young gold digger that stole quite a bit from us, the original family. In the end he was tossed in a pauper's grave deep in South America. His lifelong desire was to be buried in Arlington. That never happened.