Veteran looks back at D-Day

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

This May Fred Layher, of Walker, walked up a road in Normandy and peered into a gun emplacement overlooking Omaha Beach. It wasn't the first time he had seen that particular gun emplacement, his first experience with it was on D-Day, 1944, when it contained Germans and he had to clear it out. Layher's trip was part of a tour sponsored by the National Geographic Society.

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