We had an old man hot walker who worked for us a few years ago , was one of the first crews to storm the beaches of Normandy , he said as the men were climbing down the ropes to board the boats to take them to land it seemed like forever before the boat filled up , it was beacsue they were being picked off one by one by snipers. He said they finally made land fall with every German gun firing at them , was crawling on the beach beside his buddy when his friends head blew off , he made it over to the cliffs with the Gremans throwing everything they had at them . When they finally reached the top and made way to the first french village , one of his buddy's snapped a few photos , come to find out that the first village they liberated was the same town a kid from France who was working for us at the time was from .
Amazing courage these men showed to save a nation of people who now act like we have never did a damn thing for them .
I know this really is a lil off the subject of Dec. 7th , but just still find it an interesting story.
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