Meet Uncle Jack. Just after midnight on 6 Jun 44, he parachuted into Normandy the night before the D-Day invasion as part of the 101st Airborne Division. He was the only one of his squad of 15 men to live through the war. Although he was badly wounded in the Battle of Bastogne, he came home, married my aunt, had two children, and lived a long life. Uncle Jack passed a couple of years ago at the age of 95. He was always an active person and swam several times a week until the last couple of years.
