Robert Siegel speaks with Ralph Frias and Eugene Levine, two veterans of the D-Day landings in Normandy 70 years ago. They offer stories of their experiences and relate what it was like to take part in a day that changed the world.
"I have four brothers who came back horribly disturbed by Vietnam and Korea. I vowed that I would try not to become eaten up by the war."
-- D-Day veteran Ralph Frias
![D-Day veteran Eugene Levine was a weather observer with the 82nd Airborne Division and landed near Utah Beach in a glider. He was the division's only weather observer to survive and transmitted the first weather report from Ste. Mere-Eglise.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b538382/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2176x1632+0+0/resize/880x660!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2014%2F06%2F06%2Fdsc_8909-3-4c9511abe34c522c4aef9deb72174c2c612e1b7a.jpg)
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"I was changed by the fact that I survived. We even had to make out wills."
-- D-Day veteran Eugene Levine
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