Peter Gunn
Master Sergeant
1) The incredible bravery and commitment to free the world from tyranny, I cannot fathom what it took for kids that were soda jerks, mechanics, gas pump jockeys etc. to do this. For the American Australian, New Zealand, Canadian troops, all the allied nations to leave our comfortable shores for foreign battlefields to join their brothers in arms from the United Kingdom so that we may bask in the sunlight of freedom, even 75 years later. That's a debt that we still reap the benefits from to this day. I know many of us had relatives and even fathers there, so to the soldiers sailors and airmen of the Great Crusade -
2) As a kid I remember watching a special on TV with President Eisenhower on the 20th anniversary of the invasion. Man... not only feeling old today, but totally question some days how I measure up to my father and his generation. Really feel I come up short.
2) As a kid I remember watching a special on TV with President Eisenhower on the 20th anniversary of the invasion. Man... not only feeling old today, but totally question some days how I measure up to my father and his generation. Really feel I come up short.