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who was a young lieutenant
in the 101st Airborne.
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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.
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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
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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,
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you'll find out rather quickly
as you go out the door.
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What I was thinking
on the way down...
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I can't remember thinking of anything
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other than just terrible fear.
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I was never more afraid of
anything than at that moment.
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The sizes of the forces involved
were gargantuan.
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This was the biggest amphibious
operation in human history.
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Guys thought
this would be pretty easy.
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Maybe the Air Force
has killed them already.
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Actually, they hadn't hit anything.
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Most of the young men that landed
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on Utah and Omaha had never
landed on a beach before.
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It was their first time at war.
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When those ramps
went down on those boats,
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and those Germans had been
waiting and holding their fire,
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thousands and thousands of them,
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rifles, machine guns,
mortars, big cannon.
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I swear, in some of those boats