Life is a journey, one step followed by another…
This is a repost of an earlier blog. It seemed appropriate to post on this day… La Fiére Causeway, Normandy – 79 Years Ago I can’t begin to describe what I’ve been through the past few days. Hell, what we’ve… Read moreBlog #145—D-Day: No Better Place to Die
I posted an earlier version of this blog last year about this same time. While there are always plenty of remarkable stories and articles about the events of June 6, 1944 (D-Day Invasion), I decided to write about the events… Read more#86–No Better Place to Die (WWII: D-Day+3)
My dad, Capt. A.Z. Adkins, Jr., fought with Patton’s Third Army during World War II. “Pop” was a 22-year-old officer, an 81mm mortar section leader, in Company H, a heavy weapons company in the 2d Battalion of the 317th Infantry… Read more#45 – WWII Baptism by Fire, 76 Years Ago
La Fiére Causeway, Normandy – 76 Years Ago I can’t begin to describe what I’ve been through the past few days. Hell, what we’ve all been through. I’m not even sure where to begin, it’s all been such a blur…. Read more#34 – No Better Place to Die