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14 - We Were There at the Normandy Invasion by Clayton Knight · We Were There at the Normandy Invasion

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  Speaker 1: My dear boy. Father de Prey held out his arms.
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  Speaker 1: Andrea cleared the space to the parsoned steps as though
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  Speaker 1: shot from the jeep. Did my must come my father, Marie,
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  Speaker 1: he cried. He looked up at the priest's long, bony face,
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  Speaker 1: lined with weariness, and halted. The old man embrace was kind,
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  Speaker 1: but Andre knew at once that the news he brought
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  Speaker 1: was not good. His expression held too much sadness. So
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  Speaker 1: father needs rested. Someone in the crowd of neighbors called out,
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  Speaker 1: and Anna, the parsonage housekeeper, bustled from the door. Come in,
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  Speaker 1: Come in, Andrea, she called anxiously, and bring in to father.
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  Speaker 1: I will give you tea and then you may talk.
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  Speaker 1: I must tell you Andre, Father Duprey said, my news
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  Speaker 1: of your family is not too bad, so do not
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  Speaker 1: be anxious. However, I do not know where all of
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  Speaker 1: them are now, but come into the house. After tea
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  Speaker 1: was served. The old man died deeply. Now, Andre, he said,
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  Speaker 1: to relieve your anxiety as well as I can to begin.
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  Speaker 1: The hospital where we left your mother is small, and
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  Speaker 1: it is well outside. To tell the sons of Vio
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  Speaker 1: de Vaucon in the country. Really, the doctors there are good.
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  Speaker 1: Your father, Marie and I waited for some time to
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  Speaker 1: get a report from them about your mother. At about
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  Speaker 1: ten thirty o'clock Monday night, it was June fifth, one
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  Speaker 1: of the doctors came to tell us that Madame Gaignon
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  Speaker 1: needed only the ut medicine and then we go to
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  Speaker 1: to get well. That is good news, eh andres side, yes,
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  Speaker 1: very good. One other thing, the priest held up a
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  Speaker 1: thin thing. The Marquis met us exactly on time as
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  Speaker 1: a rendezvous not far from the hospital, and your brave
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  Speaker 1: flyer Ronald pitt Ranford, what a sight two of the
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  Speaker 1: roughest looking of our Marquis and a nun racing towards
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  Speaker 1: a nearby building. But well, as they got away safely,
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  Speaker 1: that was good, no wonderful, Andrew murmured, wells. Then, at
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  Speaker 1: about eleven thirty that night, your father and I stood
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  Speaker 1: at the hospital door. We were to start back home
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  Speaker 1: and Marie was to stay with your mother. We heard
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  Speaker 1: bombing all around us. Your father said, the bombing is
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  Speaker 1: getting bad. Just as he said that, we heard loud
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  Speaker 1: shouting in German, and Nazis began pouring out of their
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  Speaker 1: camps onto the roads. A minute later, there was a
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  Speaker 1: sound of motorcycles and cars shrieking in the streets, and
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  Speaker 1: heavy empty aircraft fire. Someone cried up, as in the
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  Speaker 1: has begun. Her shooters are landing all around the same
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  Speaker 1: are A. Father felt that to was his duty to
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  Speaker 1: remain with Madame Guignon. I said, my duty was to
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  Speaker 1: hasten home, and I promised to look after you. Andre.
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  Speaker 1: The old man smiled wryly. I did not have much
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  Speaker 1: efficience to do that, did I. In the midst of it,
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  Speaker 1: bar reappeared. She was with Leon to play a marquis.
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  Speaker 1: I know well, she said, The father is a marquis here.
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  Speaker 1: I need women to help his the villagers. Please do
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  Speaker 1: not forbid me to go in the hospital. Mother is
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  Speaker 1: in good hands. Your father agreed, but not willingly. In
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  Speaker 1: another minute, Marie and Leon were on a MOTORCYCLI and
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  Speaker 1: out of sight. But how did you get home? Father?
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  Speaker 1: It has been five days, asked Andrea. The priest replied
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  Speaker 1: it was necessary to follows the loneliest old SUSI confusial.
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  Speaker 1: One did not know was a shares us. A sniper's
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  Speaker 1: bullets would strike. I slipped well in nafansa hedges. The
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  Speaker 1: priest continued, I was a very kindly given food by
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  Speaker 1: many villagers. Sometimes I took refuji in a Chilchoi house.
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  Speaker 1: At time I was able to help with the wounded
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  Speaker 1: a Niel, and sometimes I stopped to comfort thee children.
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  Speaker 1: Father Duprix rose and put a kindly hand on Andrea's shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: I am glad as that you are perdson. Go home now,
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  Speaker 1: and do not worry even about Marie. The Gagnonzai family
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  Speaker 1: is that, for two hundred years has not been easily crushed.
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  Speaker 1: Andrea went slowly down the parsonage steps. On the first
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  Speaker 1: night of the invasion, his parents had been safe, but
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  Speaker 1: that was four days ago, he thought. A loud shout
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  Speaker 1: stopped him. Struck Off beckoned from the jeep, Hey kids, say,
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  Speaker 1: I got to deliver you and get a receipt from
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  Speaker 1: Captain Doby. Get in. Andre looked shocked. You see, generally,
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  Speaker 1: who was joking, wasn't he? I can walk see short
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  Speaker 1: distance home. I'm sorry to keep you waiting so long.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's all right. I needed the rest, Grinnstrokoff, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting that receipt. Boy a general never forgets. Captain
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  Speaker 1: Dobe looked up from his desk irritably. When Strukoff entered
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  Speaker 1: the room and saluted. Andrea followed well in the rear. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Dobe snapped. After hearing the general's request, he barked, you
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  Speaker 1: want what you brought Andre home from where? At one side,
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  Speaker 1: Weller muttered, I should have known better. I should have
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  Speaker 1: known better. The Captain scribbled out a receipt for Strukov
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  Speaker 1: and signed it. He then registered his feelings by banging
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  Speaker 1: weights down and all the papers on his desk. I
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  Speaker 1: never even missed him, he said through Cloe's lips. The
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  Speaker 1: telephone jangled, and Andrea saw Well turned to Captain Doby
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  Speaker 1: excitedly for moving this command posted up to the other
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  Speaker 1: side of Saint mel. The ninth Division is almost set
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  Speaker 1: to help us in a big push. Weller turned his
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  Speaker 1: eyes slowly on Andrea. End of Chapter fourteen.