Marvin Gilmore Jr., the grandson of slaves, was 20 when he and other U.S. troops stormed the beaches in Normandy, France, in 1944.
The grandson of slaves, Gilmore served in the 458th Anti-Aircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion and served on D-Day’s Normandy, Utah, and Omaha beaches. While he’s looking forward to the parade and is hoping to reconnect with other WWII veterans, Gilmore lamented the state of the country.
“The parade is a timeline of history,” Tim Holbert, the president of AVC and the producer of the National Memorial Day Parade, told the. “You have the George Washington from Mount Vernon who comes up, you have reenactors from the Continental Army, you have the World War One reenactors. Someday, there will need to be some reenactment or something of World War II to continue that story when we don’t have these people that are with us.
Dave Yoho, who was 15 when he walked into a recruiting station for the Maritime Service with a fake birth certificate in 1944, is one of the youngest living WWII veterans at 95 years old.
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