“We’re not heroes... The heroes are all gone. They’re the ones that got killed.” “You always think that you're not the one that's going to be killed. But that quickly changed.' “Freedom is not free.' D-Day vets remember landing in Normandy 75 years ago:
“It’s terrifying and believe me when I tell you, when we were in the Higgins boat coming in, the long life that we thought we were gonna have could be shortened very, very fast because of the bullets that were coming at us,” says Locker.
Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Locker says he can talk about the Army but when he talks about the Holocaust, he notes, “I don’t sleep at night.” “Freedom is not free. There was a lot of people that gave their lives, millions of people gave their lives so that they — the children today — could be free.”Ludovic Marin / AFP - Getty Images
Rice was a staff sergeant in the Army, a member of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He was the first to jump from his C-47, in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, near Utah Beach in Normandy, France.“I saw a hurricane of fire coming up from German positions below,” said Rice. “This is all microseconds that is going by my mind so fast that I'm not even wondering.
“We were wanting to get out of the plane. You got anxious. You know, you could get killed up there. And two of our planes got in our echelon got shot down and lost all the men in G company. And I had been in G company when I first went in,” said Deibler, part of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
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