STAFF SGT. LEO D. KIGGINS, D-Day, June 6, 1944, Omaha Beach, 336th Engineer Combat Battalion. 

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NEVER again my friends. I thank God these stories have been recorded for history's sake and we will NEVER forget!!!

Thank you for remembering these brave men. They were truly the greatest generation!

Can’t even fathom what these men went through, they really are some of the toughest people of all time. RIP sir and thank you

Thanks Larry for interviewing these amazing veterans, this war must be remembered by us all and future generations. God bless all that landed in France and support ships, landing craft on this historic day. D DAY THANKS FOR YOUR LIVES AND THE START OF THE END OF GERMANY AND WHAT IT STOOD FOR!!😎💯💯💯❤️❤️💜

Another great interview with another great American hero! What you do is so important Larry,the young people in this country need to understand what these men and women did and what they sacrificed for all of us.Thank you for the time,effort and dedication you put into all of this,it's so much more than just entertainment.God Bless all the men and women involved in D Day!

What a great interview. Notice he pauses when he speaks, hesitant to tell what he is seeing in his mind. You can see it is painful for him just remembering it. My Great Uncle was a combat engineer in the 1st wave on Omaha on D Day. He really didnt want to talk about it. When i pressed him, he said very little, and spoke hesitantly like Mr. Kiggins. But he did tell me, His unit was practically wiped out on Omaha. Had it not been for a U.S. Destroyer Captain dis obeying orders, the invasion on Omaha might have failed. This captain brought his destroyer in until it hit a sandbar and then turned it sideways so they could give our troops direct 5 inch gunfire on the german pillboxes and dug in enemy. He said "Thank God for that destroyer captain, or we would have all been killed. That ships crew knocked out enough germans and pill boxes it enabled us to get off the beach. " While the destroyer captain and his crews deeds went largely unknown, I did see one report in WW2 war reels that it did happen. My Great Uncles unit was so decimated he said they kept the survivors around Paris for the remainder of the war clearing mines, pillboxes, german messes, etc, and basically cleaning up the messes the war had caused. His brother, my Grandfather, landed at Omaha about noon on D day with U.S. 2nd armored division. He also said the German artillery was very heavy at that time. Mr Cappetto had featured a picture of my Grandfather sitting in his M7 self propelled 105mm howitzer during the Battle of the Bulge in one of his documentarys. Mr. Cappetto was kind enough to email me that picture. It is one of the only pics of my GrandPap in WW2 combat we have. It hangs in my home as an 8 x 10. Thank you for that Mr. Cappetto. A 3rd brother, my other Great Uncle, served in North Africa as a combat engineer with U.S. 1st armored, and his unit was wiped out at Faid pass, then got hit again at Kasserine pass by Rommel. General Patton had those few survivors sent home as they didnt want them talking to any of the new troops about what Rommel had did to them, or telling how the german tanks were better than ours. 3 brothers, all in combat in WW2, all 3 wounded but survived, none ever knew where the others were at. And my Great Uncle said they never discussed the war between themselves either. (Which i thought odd at 1st). But another Uncle, also a combat engineer, who fought in the pacific was ask if he was in a certain nasty battle, he replied "Yes, and I spent the last 50 years trying to forget it. " Combat engineers like Mr. Kiggins seen some of the worst of it. They were usually under enemy fire trying to help the advance, and took very high casualties. We can only imagine the horrors these men seen and went through. No small wonder they are hesitant to talk about it, they can see & re live the horror again just talking about it. Thank God for the Greatest Generation. We ALL, and many millions more, and many other country's , OWE THEM our freedoms we have today. They are extraordinary Heroes in every sense of the word. Each and every one if them. Thank you and God Bless them all. And Thank you Mr. Cappetto. Preserving these WW2 veterans stories is extremely important for future generations.

Thank you for not forgetting.

Praise God for all of these men an w woman

God bless him he is a hero

Excellent.

Dear Larry, there Is a lot to say about war, history, our role in history. We are the next generation to those brave makers of european freedom, both in politics and on the field. You were so sensitive to the need to explore all that. I have been curious too. My parents told me about the liberation of Italy during WW2. They lived those great days and in their simplicity they taught me what Is right. I eventually married a US Serviceman and moved to the US where I lived for 20 years.I got my B.L.S . and M.A. in the US. I almost finished my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, but following divorce I preferred to come back to Italy. Eventually I got my honorary Ph.D. from a Christian College. May I say it is not only history, it Is comparative knowledge, It Is social studies. It Is Idealism that took a turn to the right with Nazism. It was a great war fought for a great reason, an who can question an effort like that? My ex father in law was a WW2 veteran too.Now I live in Italy and work for charities, people wonder why I didnt go after the american dream ,maybe I am too sensitive too..

Thank You for remembering D-day, Biden didn't remember it today. What a shame.

Anyway later in the afternoon.. It's obvious that he very much skipped over the part we all want to know which is the very emotional part. There are some other videos out there that are incredibly emotional recounts of that day. This guy probably either suppressed it or can't handle talking about it. We love him anyway thank you sir