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

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13. My Dad said he landed D+2 or 3 never talked about cambat

His stories like his WW I vet father were about funny stuff. When he was 75 he did relate some things he'd keep in his heart.

It was May 8, " I'll never forget VE Day. A friend and I were riding on a tank when he turned Tom and said, It's been one hell of a war, Charlie.' He rolled of the tank dead, shot by a sniper who hadn't heard the news"

The other was a recurring nightmare. He'd been assigned to a new unit fresh from America. When he arrived he was ordered back to his former unit. Friendly artillery fire had killed many. His job was to try to ID the dead. The nightmare was the faces of the dead begging him to identify them. A soldier's greatest fear is to be mia and their families never knowing what happened.

He died in 2005, I miss him sorely.