UK Veteran's Letter Testimony to Quiet D-Day Courage

He never came home — another citizen-soldier whose destiny was to be a fading black and white photograph on a widow’s mantelpiece. “My thoughts at this moment, in this lovely Saturday afternoon, are with you all now,” wrote Capt. Norman Skinner, a Londoner and 38-year-old former insurance salesman. “I can imagine you in the garden having tea with Janey and Anne getting ready to put them to bed.” His letter to wife Gladys — which he carried in his pocket as he stormed ashore on the...

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