Question for those around Mind-rot. I understand, from a friend second-hand, that the Minot Daily News didn't have one iota of a story about D-Day this year???? The only reference to June 6th was the date on the front page headline and a Peanuts cartoon in the comic section.
Is that true? Minot Daily News hasn't responded to me yet.
In the past six months I've come across three men who were either on Omaha Beach or Normandy Beach. One of those guys' unit made it all the way to the Battle of the Bulge with Patton. The least I could do was salute each man and thank him for his heroic gesture.
I also met one man, recently, that was on one of the motherships to PT-109 in the south pacific. He told me a kamakazi pilot crashed into his ship and the explosion threw him from one side of the rear deck to the other, landing against the railing and injuring him where he couldn't use his legs to walk at the time. He then said, minutes later, another kamakazi pilot beat out the rain of bullets from the ships' guns and hit the other side of their ship. The captain orders "Abandon Ship".... men had just reached this guy and were helping him to shelter/infirmary when the order was given. They were told to swim the four miles to an island. Only 50 men make it to shore, some staying in the treeline along shore and another 27 going inward further for medical care inside an abandoned hutment.
Bill continued telling me the Japaneze bombed that island all night long. When he awoke he crawled outside to see the destruction. He went back inside to find the other 26 guys from one end of the hut to the other were dead. He was the only survivor in that hut. He crawled to the shore to his mates and they were rescued a few days later.
