Some of them were only boys. Their parents questioned their odd taste in music. Dad disapproved when they smoked too early. Mom wasn't sure about the new girlfriend their boy brought home. They left jobs, colleges, small towns, big cities, football games, clean rooms, drugstore soda fountains, record stores, cuddling with a date on Saturday night and went into a world of screaming shells, unexpected bullets, filthy foxholes, and the ever-present figure of Death standing too close by. On that day some of them didn't come home.
65 Years After D-Day, Normandy's Gratitude Toward US Has Not FadedIn Pictures: D-Day CommemorationsIn Pictures: Remembering D-DayObama Hails D-Day Heroes at NormandyObama's Gramps: Gazing Skyward on D-Day in EnglandOn D-Day, Remembering A Humble HeroD-Day Remembered at World War II MuseumVideo Interview: The Longest Day Remembered, an interview with Huston Riley, the gentleman in
this famous D-Day photo by Robert Capa.
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