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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1994
Page
2
Nunan a 22 year old Syracuse sergeant led a nine man Airborne squad in Normandy. He recounts jumping under moonlight through bullets and a canopy rip, hitting a tree and a gully, later defending Sainte Merc Eglise. He fought through Nijmegen and beyond, staying in the Army 30 years and retiring as a captain.
Emotions rise at Colleville and on Omaha Beach as President Clinton, Queen Elizabeth II, and French leaders honor 9,386 American war dead and 40 million World War II victims. Veterans, many in old uniforms, recall battles at Pointe du Hoc and Utah, with Charlee Neigidd and Andy Rooney among those quoted.
In Normandy on Monday Lena Stein wife of D-Day veteran Herman Stein 70 of Fort Pierce Florida spoke with German veteran Rudolf Karl. Karl recalled serving as a sergeant on D-Day and the assault. Stein replied there are no hard feelings and that the war is over Karl agreed War is not good.
Carlton Barrett, a Fulton native five feet three inches tall, earned the Medal of Honor on D-Day as one of four U.S. soldiers to receive the award. He guided troops ashore under fire, helped wounded comrades, and avoided panic amid heavy combat. Barrett later struggled with alcohol, divorced, and spent years in a veterans home before passing away in 1986.
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