From the June 2019 AARP Bulletin "Bedford Remembers" by Alex Kershaw.
Lucille Hoback Boggess of Bedford, Virginia, celebrates her 90th birthday on June 8, just 48 hours after the anniversary of D-Day. The events of that day, 75 years ago would forever change her life and that of her family and her hometown.
Boggess remembers waving goodbye to her two brothers from the Bedford train station under a cold blue February sky in 1941 after their National Guard unit was called to active duty. None of those soldiers, including several sets of brothers, could foresee the role they would play in the greatest invasion of that war (or any war for that matter).
On June 4, 1944, the southwestern Virginia town of Bedford, population 3,200, suffered the highest per capita loss of any American community. When the telegrams began to arrive, the tight-knit town was devastated.
--GreGen
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