Posted: 6/7/2015 11:04:40 AM EDT
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Every year when D-Day rolls around I love reading the accounts of the people who were there. Here is a good one.
http://m.military.com/Content/MoreContent1/?file=dday_0034p1 |
| I took a history class at Lehigh Univ. back in 1984. The professor's last name was Haight (I didn't recall his first name, but it was John, and he died in 1997) - he was a little guy, maybe 5,4". He started his first class with a story, of what he did as a young man in 1944. He said he was in the Omaha beach landing (edit - looks like his unit came into Omaha a few days after June 6, but not like that meant it was a safe place to be) and ran and dove into a small crater. Shortly after, he said someone dove in on top of him - it was an army chaplain. The chaplain looked at him and said to him,"you know, I've been preaching my whole life against you", and then the chaplain got up and ran off somewhere else on the beach. |