GRP 120-Warriors Heart: Two Brothers Serving in Special Missions in The War on Terror
Global Recon
John Hendricks
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2018
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Someday, Liz, I'll go back, said private first class Peter Roberts, Zanatta, of the 37th engineer |
| 0:15.1 | combat battalion and first assault wave to hit Omaha Beach. |
| 0:19.8 | I'll go back and I'll see it all again. |
| 0:22.6 | I'll see the beach, the barricades, and the graves. |
| 0:30.6 | Those words of Private Zanatta come to us from his daughter, Lisa Zanatta, in a heart-rending |
| 0:43.9 | story about the event her father spoke of so often. |
| 0:48.3 | She tells some of his stories of World War II, but says of her father, the story to end |
| 0:53.4 | all stories was D-Day. |
| 0:57.0 | He made me feel the fear of being on that boat waiting to land. |
| 1:01.0 | I can smell the ocean and feel the seasickness. |
| 1:04.0 | I can see the looks on his fellow soldiers' faces, the fear, the anguish, the uncertainty of what lay ahead. And when they landed, |
| 1:12.6 | I can feel the strength and courage of the men who took those first steps through the tide |
| 1:17.6 | to what must have surely looked like, instant death. And like all the families of those who went |
| 1:24.6 | to war, she describes how she came to realize her own father's survival was a miracle. |
| 1:30.3 | So many men died. I know that my father watched many of his friends be killed. I know that he must have died inside a little each time. |
| 1:43.3 | Lisa Zanata Hinn began her story by quoting her father who promised that he would return to Normandy. |
| 1:54.5 | She ended with a promise to her father who died eight years ago of cancer. |
| 1:59.4 | I'm going there, Dad, and I'll see the beaches and the parricades and the monuments. |
| 2:06.6 | I'll see the graves and I'll put flowers there just like you wanted to do. |
| 2:11.6 | I'll feel all the things you made me feel through your stories and your eyes. |
| 2:19.3 | I'll never forget what you went through, Dad, nor will I let anyone else forget. |
| 2:26.3 | And Dad, I will always be proud. |
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