REFLECTING: "As an 18-year-old, you don't do a lot of thinking. You just follow orders," says Charles "Buster" Shaeff Jr., a Navy diesel mechanic who dodged gunfire and freed his Higgins boat from a "hedgehog" to transport troops to Normandy. The Lynchburg, Virginia, resident visited the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, this week, as he and other surviving D-Day veterans looked back on their experiences 70 years ago. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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