Once Brest was captured on 17 September, 1944, the division went into a rest mode for a week. We were given a chance to come back to strength with the infusion of many replacements. One afternoon, I was called to the tent of the company commander for an interview about accepting a battlefield commission. In [...]

This is one man’s story of D-Day at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. A Private is at the bottom rung of the military ladder. Everyone above him tells him what to do and when. His horizon is usually measured in yards and no one tells him what is going on. I had a very inquiring [...]

When my unit, Second Battalion, 115th Infantry Regiment, left Omaha Beach it was with a sense of relief at putting the scene of so much death and destruction behind us. But our relief lasted a very short time. Climbing the very narrow path to the top of the bluff we passed a man lying beside [...]

When we replacements arrived in the 2nd Battalion, 115th Infantry Regimental area in January, 1944, the battalion was getting ready to deploy into the field for maneuvers. The English weather was bone-chilling and demoralizing. We were wearing our heavy wool overcoats, gloves, and scarves but we were shivering from the cold wind that blew in [...]

It was not long after my physical that the Army sent its regards and told me where to report which turned out to be the local City Hall where several hundred young men gathered to hear the send-offs and speeches. We listened rather stoically and fortunately not for very long before the group was loaded [...]

The Voice of Moore County begins its journey on its new web site with an outstanding series of Articles written by Donald C. VanRoosen entitled One Man’s War. It is altogether appropriate as we enter a new decade in this new century that we reflect on the gifts of liberty and freedom so freely given to us by the men and women that Tom Brokaw called the Greatest Generation. Don Van Roosen (LTC USAR Ret.) an highly decorated combat veteran, recounts in his Articles the dangers that he and his fellow soldiers encountered as they stormed the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day in June of 1944..