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Young Sue Gurwell had always known that her father had been a paratrooper And then there was the special poem in his rolltop desk she sometimes snuck a peek at written by a member of Dads regiment This poem was a premonition of the sergeants death Yes her dad told her He was righthe died on DDay

But its not until 2016 after her parents had both passed away that Susan Gurwell Talley and her husband Jack L Talley begin to understand the true extent and significance of the wartime artifacts that had been staples of Sues childhood The Talleys discovered that Sues father Lt George L Gurwell Executive Officer HqHq 508th PIR had silently squirreled away thousands of wartime documents in the family home

This precious resource could not have passed into better hands than those of Jack and Sue Talley Jack a PhD psychologist specializing in PTSD was the first to understand that George had PTSD symptoms that still lingered from the war years when he and George were introduced on June 6 2001 That evening the fiftyseventh anniversary of DDay George first opened up about the war and preceded to talk late into the night In that conversation lies the genesis of this book