My son, Jonathan, and I celebrated his 15th birthday by visiting the D-Day Museum in New Orleans a few weeks ago.
Jonathan standing beside a Higgins boat. These boats were built in New Orleans and were used throughout WWII - but most famously to transport hundreds of thousands of soldiers into Normandy on D-Day.
Two members of the 101st Airborne, their stories made famous by the HBO series developed from Stephen Ambrose's book Band of Brothers, were there that day. These men were signing copies of their newly released book.
Jonathan visiting with "Babe" Heffron and "Wild Bill" Guarnere.
Bill parachuted into France the night before D-Day. He was later injured at Bastogne.
Babe joined Easy Company as a replacement and was among the first US troops to enter Hilter's mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden.
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