Not So Wordless Wednesday: Remembering DDay

  Today the Indianapolis Star featured an interview with twins who had been in the Normandy invasion.
  Like my dad, they were reluctant to discuss the experience.

My Dad, Operating a Foxhole Switchboard
During Basic Training
leaf pile at left covers dirt from hole

  My dad volunteered before Pearl Harbor.  Two of his brothers served in the Pacific; another brother served in Africa and Europe as he did.  While these brothers did not serve together, both invaded Italy.  My dad was in the invasion of Sicily, and in Salerno was seriously injured, spending time in a hospital ship off the coast of Maryland.
  Initially he was told he would not live, then would not walk. Then he was shipped back for, as he put it, "the push for Berlin."
  i shudder to think what he saw in that phase.
   The brother who served in Europe saw time as a prisoner and was in the Battle of the Bulge.

  My father in law remembers with pride his time in Korea.  He says, "We need to remember our veterans.  It is especially important that we remember the service of those who do not wish to remember their own service."

  One of the interviewed twins, Will Rosebrough, said, "There's things you want to forget about. When somebody's shooting at you, it's not fun. . . . But we'd do it again if we had to."