“I wasn’t as scared as I thought I’d be but I had a funny feeling in my stomach. At that time I didn’t know what it was, but later on I found out they call them Butterflies. I did have Butterflies in my stomach.”
“I honestly never thought of oh God ya know? No. I was. Like as numb as I was but I never witnessed or felt any fear of going into battle or anything like that.”
“Everybody was scared. Hey, we were only a bunch of kids, 20, 21, 19..Nobody knew what the hell war was at that time, but now I know.”
“We went to see Saving Private Ryan. I think that was the last war picture I saw. I mean that picture was, the landing on the beach that day was almost like they were there filming, exactly like that, even worse.”
“Something big was coming, that we knew. When we were told that we would be leaving and to go to Southhampton, I said Southampton, that’s right on the coast to go to France . So we knew we were gonna go to France.”
“The whole sky was filled with airplanes just about everywhere you could look and the whole sea as far as you could look was incoming ships and boats and what-not.”
“I said to myself there isn’t that many ships in the world, there’s that many of them there. There isn’t that mnay ships in the world. I saw so many planes. I actually felt sorry for the Germans because I didn’t see any German planes.”
“It was awful. Blood was all over. Blood was all over. We saw the bodies, but we couldn’t do nothing about that.”
“I can remember it was kind of stormy and of course there’s no lights anywhere showing. We’re all in the darkness and the only thing ahead of me was another tug pulling another big monstrosity.”
“The tide was coming in so fast, the people were holding hands, I guess a lot of them couldn’t swim but they were holding hands till they got out of the boat. You had these half tracks that were goin’ up and they were poppin’ them off like crazy even the people, we were all together there and a lot of them got hit. You could see em’ goin’ over.”
“There were bodies all over the place, blood, arms, legs, the water was pretty red. You felt pretty bad when you see one of your own dead, it was pretty hard to take it.”
“ I never said much about it, because I don’t want to keep remembering it. The less I talk about it, the better it is.”
