Transcript
I happened to read a required book for
my freshman year of high school called The Longest Day,
and it's about the D-Day invasion into France.
And I was reading the book, and I remember my father
saying something to me, something about,
"Oh, I landed in Normandy, on Omaha Beach on D-Day Plus 2."
And I was like, amazed that, you know, what I was reading,
that my father had been a part of, and I was just shocked.
Something that was so incredibly important in his life
as well as, you know, in the country's life
or experience in history, that he never talked about.
He never mentioned it, I never knew anything about it.
I thought that that was quite incredible.
And then I started asking him questions about it,
and I found that he was very reticent to talk about it,
and I sensed that he was uncomfortable with it.