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It's one tragedy of war
that you lose your friends.
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Parker, get down!
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Regardless of the words
on paper and the story,
:03:12
this was going to be
:03:14
some brand
of current definitive document
:03:17
about a day of decision unlike
any other in world history.
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Destroy Hitler's empire,
smash it by air,
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break it wide open,
then invade by sea.
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That was the directive.
:03:31
D-Day was the pivot point
of this century.
:03:34
It was the day which decided
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whether this world was
going to be Nazi or democratic.
:03:40
The night before D-day
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probably was the most
exciting night in our history.
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Planes started taking off
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about nine to ten o'clock
at night.
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And they were coming over us
at about 500 feet
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with their lights blinking,
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and in one of those was my brother,
:04:00
who was a young lieutenant
in the 101st Airborne.
:04:04
And needless to say,
I had a long prayer,
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not only for him, but for
the thousands of those guys
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who were within
a half hour of combat.
:04:15
I was getting scared,
I was frightened to death.
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It was quiet on the plane,
and I pulled off my rosary
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and I kept saying rosaries.
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And someone asked
if he could borrow my rosary,
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and I said,
"No, I'm busy using it."
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I prayed all the way
until we hit the coastline.
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I used to tell people one
of the greatest lies on earth
:04:42
was when the jumpmaster said,
"Are you ready?"
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And everybody said, "Yes!"
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If you don't know what fear is,
:04:50
you'll find out rather quickly
as you go out the door.
:04:54
What I was thinking
on the way down...
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I can't remember thinking of anything