re: Remembering D-Day

He landed at Normandy and helped to liberate Europe. You spend a disproportionate amount of time posting on TD. Who is actually the weird one?

I talked to a 95 yr old vet at the gym the other day. He still works out & his memory was extremely fresh. He said that the movie Saving Private Ryan was the most accurate depiction of the invasion, especially all the sounds of the bullets flying everywhere. But he said the one thing that no movie can ever replicate was the smell of the battlefield. Soldiers getting shot & losing their bowels, intestines, vomit, brain matter flying all over the place, the smell of cordite. He said he still has nightmares in which he hears men screaming over & over & over again. One German soldier's, on fire from a flamethrower, is one scream he'll never foget.