I met Bob and Ken a handful of times as well as Medics Joe "Mother" Madigan and David Tuel and other troopers from the 501 PIR/101st Airborne. They were wonderful men. The first time that I met them, it was a surprise meeting set up by some other 5-0-Wonders and Medic Tuel handed me 4 photos of them and my father and asked if I could pick my father out (I lost him in 83 when I was 18) and I did. He told me to keep the photos and I thanked him for that and I thanked him and the others for saving my father's life during the Battle of the Bulge. My father was gravely injured by a tree burst and to be able to thank the men was so surreal and one of the best days of my life. I miss all of the guys so very much and they treated me like family. Blue Skies to each and every one of them. Their wives were equally as amazing.
I've been here, last year we went to this church and it is such an inspiring story. Its kinda sad the not many people now about their story or about this church, its kinda sad as its not as well known as the church from the movie "The longest day", so the church is slow falling apart. They also saved the life of an 11 year old boy who had survived a morter shell strike and was the only member of his family the surived ( he was apart of a family of 7) and it was because one of the two men who had died refused morphine twice and by duing this he had helped to save this young boy who later became a doctor to help to save others like how these two paratroopers did for him
One thing the video didn't mention was that Robert Wrights ashes are buried in Angoville au Plain church cemetery. He had visited the town after the war and felt a strong connection.
