Posts Tagged ‘ D-Day ’

June 6 is the anniversary of D-Day, the beginning of the invasion of Normandy. My dad was a young naval lieutenant in that historic battle, serving on a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) that carried special forces and led the way for other such craft. Everett Woodman in naval uniform He was very proud to have participated, but the experience scarred him more than he even realized. In 2004, at the age of eighty-eight, he was having flashbacks of …Read More

The sixtieth anniversary of the invasion of Normandy was approaching, and my eighty-eight-year-old dad, Everett Woodman, very much wanted to go to the ceremonies at the American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer. He’d been a young naval officer in the historic battle, serving on a Landing Craft Infantry that carried American special forces to Omaha Beach and led the way for other such craft. My mom, Ruthie, then eighty-three, would have preferred to stay home; plus, she was having memory …Read More