06/06/2022
Images of war. On June 6th 1944 my father James Martin Cook, with the 90th infantry swam to Utah beach in the Normandy invasion. Two Bronze Stars both for heroic action in combat. The 90th liberated the German concentration in Flossenburg Czechoslovakia April 23 1944. The Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed at the camp two weeks before the 90th got there. My father seldom spoke of the war and, never spoke of the death camp. He was a quiet, honest and hard working man. He passed away January 7th 1987 at 68 years of age. He is the greatest man I have ever known. I'm going to miss the Greatest Generation.