Heroes' reward: Small towns pay tribute to five World War II veterans on Memorial Day

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Heroes' reward: Small towns pay tribute to five World War II veterans on Memorial Day
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A prisoner of war in a Nazi camp. A D-Day survivor from Normandy Beach. And a Navy gunner on a destroyer that hunted German U-boats.

“You couldn’t see too much. They kept on firing," he said."It was dark as we advanced. We looked at the footsteps, you saw what you didn’t want to see, some of the fellas that stepped on the mines, part of their body here and there.”

“When you’re a prisoner, there’s always a gun over your head, and you never know what’s going to happen next,” he told the

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