War is hell.
We pointed our guns in the air and shot at everything and anything. We need to remember the price we paid for freedom. Now in his mid-eighties, this sprightly chaplain who still wears his elegant uniform, says that during the Normandy Invasion, he held dying soldiers in his arms. The next day he says he said he was the sad witness to more than 1500 bodies scattered about the beach from the previous day's casualties. One of Barber's most vivid memories of that day that changed the world was watching an American troopship full of soldiers, exploding after colliding with and detonating a mine.