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Traveler, see you my wife
just tell her here I lie resting. Tell her easy I died from a shrapnel, peaceful waves breaking. Yes, and say that I miss her. I am lonely like her. I am waiting. |
Arndt BritschgiD-Day Memorial
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Traveler, see you my wife
just tell her here I lie resting. Tell her easy I died from a shrapnel, peaceful waves breaking. Yes, and say that I miss her. I am lonely like her. I am waiting. |
The marker of Lieutenant Den Brotheridge, platoon commander of First Platoon, Company D, Ox and Bucks, the first Allied soldier to lose his life on D-Day. Photo courtesy of US Military Academy, West Point.
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