A Lehigh Valley veteran remembers storming the beach on D-Day
A World War II veteran from the Lehigh Valley described storming Omaha Beach on D-Day.
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A World War II veteran from the Lehigh Valley described storming Omaha Beach on D-Day.
This interview by former Morning Call editor David Venditta tells the story of a teacher finding a former student on the battlefield in World War II and the sad realities of war.
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Dave Barry in 2012 (Provided photo â Charlie Cowins, via Wikimedia Commons) What began as a simple story assignment for a school newspaper ended up a trigger for parental hysteria and a brush with comic genius. It involved an “encounter session” guidance counselor Marjory Volk had conducted in four sociology classes at the high school in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, a town of about 7,000 people 33 miles west of Philadelphia and the location of the 1958 sci-fi classic “The Blob” starring Steve McQueen. I was the student writer given the assignment in January 1972, my first year o...