slatten49 wrote:
The opening D-Day landing re-creation scene from 'Saving Private Ryan' was jolting, and should serve as a sobering reminder as to the price of freedom.
My Dad survived USMC beach landings at Guadalcanal, The Solomon Islands, Saipan, Tinian, Tarawa & Okinawa...all as a teenager.
Those beach landings were tough. You had to run like the wind as you blew stuff up so the enemy couldn't zero in on you. My friend Sam Main was a frogman and explosives expert who told me about his time in the Pacific.