He's nobody's hero, never wanted to be. Just one of a million who were sent overseas. He dropped into France on a long ago night. Near Mere St Eglise where he joined in the fight. "These are the real heroes" and he points to the Stones of his friends and comrades who never came home.
A comment by an aging Veteran in the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer on the 70th Anniversary of the Normandy landings