the normandy american cemetery in normandy unlike any the world had seen. it required courage and leadership and on the beaches and in the skies that would come to be known as the greatest generation. 9387 of those heroes lie beneath the white crosses and stars of david you see behind me. they brought freedom to friends after four brutal years of nazi occupation and then they peeled back hitler s grip on europe step-by-step. later this our you will hear from the first of several or several veterans who will speak with the suite who will remarkable man who is now 104 years old. and as we moved on the morning of 16th we had casualties immediately. when you talk about the day after i talked tell people the infantry had sometimes n15 delays in wonder. mack it it all depends on how fast you will. martha: was talking about an action on the 16th several days after d-day. will have more on that interview later. is really incredible. he is quite a man and you ll see some
drafted but we knew we had a mission we did. are people where a hell of a lot tougher than you guys because we didn t like a gas light in a house, i remember all the things that we went through. i like to tell people, we had a depression don t be sorry for us. but i guarantee you when i was a kid, i had a lot more fun than your young kids have because you know what it was? we were independent in the s. plan our games, play our games, get messed up. it didn t matter. but now that we so so. we played football. wouldn t have padding. we had a generation but that because you had to walk to school, the put their old shoes on new company said go to school that s it. we were independent and i think that that was the generation that we were able to do things because they