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jumped into d-day the day before his 16th birthday. i said well, how did you get in the fight? he said i was big for my age, grew up in kentucky, his dad a coal miner and said if you want to fight, go fight. his dad signed the papers attesting he was 18 years old. he jumped into normandy with 101st at the age of 16. they were dropped out of the zone, partnered up with some others from the 86th airborne similarly out of place, and spent seven days fighting their way back to the beach head moving at night in german-occupied ceremony. his storys emblematic of all of them. these were teenagers. teenagers and they saved the world. >> dana: such a pivotal moment