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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Surviving D-Day: A Veteran's Story

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Podcasts

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4.1738 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Though the horrors of D-Day live on today through diaries, documentaries, and other records -- few veterans are still alive and able to remember the tragedy that occurred on June 6th, 1944. But there are some, like 98-year-old Jack Gutman, who is still able to recount why honoring the sacrifice and bravery shown on that day 80 years ago is so crucial.   Today, Jack recounts his experience serving as a medic on Omaha Beach at just 18 years old on D-Day -- tending to countless wounded and dead soldiers on the beach. He discusses how this day still stays with him heavily and led him to write, "One Veteran's Journey to Heal the Wounds of War," and what his thoughts are on the current state of America.   Follow Martha on X: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.8

Hello, everybody.

0:47.6

It's Martha McCallum here, and it's a new edition of the Untold Story podcast.

0:58.4

And I have a very special friend with me today as we have Memorial Day this week and then we're off to Normandy to recognize the 80th anniversary of D-Day, which of course is a day that was one of the most

1:06.6

heroic days in history, in the history of this world, reestablished the beacon for freedom in Europe

1:14.4

under the oppression of Hitler. And the man I'm about to speak to, Jack Gutman, was there on the beaches

1:23.0

in Omaha. And he was a medic, a Navy corpsman.

1:28.3

And Jack, it's great, great, great to have you with me today.

1:32.3

Thank you so much, my friend, for joining me.

1:35.3

Well, thank you for having me on.

1:38.3

I was just delighted to hear that I was going to be on.

1:45.0

And it's been about five years since we interviewed in Normandy.

1:52.0

And I've asked, had a few people ask me to go back to Normandy.

1:58.0

But the one trip I can't do it because there's too much action.

2:06.7

So they understand.

2:09.4

And so what I do is to the speaking, they'll pick me up and bring me home and do the job and then I'll get on the

2:23.2

about Normandy, whatever they want, but I will come back to the telling them how important, no matter what the venue I'm doing, whether it's

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