[Cen-Tejas]

......as those landing craft approached Omaha Beach the FEAR FACTOR in the boat among those young men must have been OVERWHELMING if not in some cases debilitating.

What a compliment to America that her son’s, with certain death for many only minutes away, did not chicken out and ORDER under gunpoint the coxswain to turn around.

78 years later, it still brings water to this old man’s eyes and a lump in my throat every time I think about it.

[Nifster]

As well it should

[Rummyfan]

78 years later, it still brings water to this old man’s eyes and a lump in my throat every time I think about it.

Me too.