'Check your bayonets': Remembering D-Day, and the hours after
"I’m no better than anyone else." That statement, in effect, was what put Foster Feathers in that landing craft, in the chop of Omaha Beach, on June 8, 1944: D-Day, Plus Two. Feathers was an affable kid who could have gotten out of World War II — had he wanted to get out of World ...