The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Friday, June 7, 2024

80th Anniversary of D-Day-- Part 4: 'War Is Hell'

Dozens of World War II veterans are converging on France to revisit old memories, make new ones, and hammer home a message that survivors of D-Day and the ensuing Battle of Normandy, and of other World War II theaters, have repeated time and time again-- that war is hell.

"Seven thousand of my marine buddies were killed.  Twenty thousand shot up, wounded, put on ships, buried at sea," said Don Graves, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served on Iwo Jima.

The youngest veteran in the group is 96 and the most senior 107, according to their carrier from Dallas, American Airlines.

--GreGen


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