Real Men
The Appalachian Podcast on X (formerly Twitter): “On this day in 1944 a little town in the Blue Ridge Mountains with about 3200 people would lose 20 sons, with 19 coming on Omaha Beach during the first wave. The “Bedford Boys” were made up primarily from Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, and trained… pic.twitter.com/3DGSrB901X / X”
On this day in 1944 a little town in the Blue Ridge Mountains with about 3200 people would lose 20 sons, with 19 coming on Omaha Beach during the first wave. The “Bedford Boys” were made up primarily from Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, and trained… pic.twitter.com/3DGSrB901X
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Quoth Col. Cooper, “the past is a different country, they did things differently back then.” Some of us have the same mindset, not sure if the numbers will be enough to matter.