there is no way a human can't be shaken by holding a piece of a glider that came in a little low for landing above the cliffs. It is just inhuman to thick of the sudden snuffing of the life of the kid next door. When I worked trauma at Good Sam in Phoenix, it never had the same impact of Normandy. The woman in the 30dark10 wrote the days on that glass and sat in the meeting with "fat boy" until she got the plan up the chain of command. I had six john wayne semper Fi's at EOP And I had an adjuct analpolis full colnell marine wh owas former adj to the commander of the PAC flt in vietnam. his personal motto was "reconisance with power". It was tough to get him to drop the 102 jump suit for a pin stripe but he did when I left the East coast I had dinner with DOD head of antiterrorism and his Isreali counter part. The remeberances were poingnant.