A great story from today's Portland Press-Herald.

Two guys from different parts of Maine who landed on Utah and fought together in Normandy, got separated, wound up surviving the war (one as a POW), wind up sharing a room in the VA hospital at Togus, Maine.
http://www.pressherald.com/news/157432795.html

I think of D-Day and the Normandy campaign every time I take out my 16 ga French guild sxs. It was taken from a Normandy farmhouse as a trophy by a 35th Inf. Div. infantryman, then held pride of place in his gun cabinet until he died in the late 80s, and until his son (not having anyone to pass it on to) sold it to me.

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