Jackie Gauthier Auclair (Brother Killed just after D-Day in St. Lo)

“They had informed us of what had happened, I think like the rest of the family it was difficult to accept because we hadn’t been with him. It was just a piece of paper that said he had been killed in action and it took awhile for it to set it and we really realized that once some of the letters that we had written him came back undelivered.”

“It was something I had always wanted to do, but I didn’t think I’d ever get to go to his grave in Normandy . It was quite an emotional experience for me to be there on his grave after nearly 50 years. It was like a connection, a reunion of souls maybe. I’ve often wondered what life would have been like for him?”