On the year of the 49th anniversary of the D-Day landings, I got to walk the beaches with my Grandfather.
He hadn’t been there all those years ago, you understand. His war had taken the young New Hampshire boy to much stranger fields of battle. His war had been going on for years. His war [...]
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