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Vet's memories rekindled in France
http://www.omaha.com/article/20120529/NEWS01/705299939/-1#vet-s-memories-rekindled-in-france
BEATRICE, Neb. — The memories had faded over the decades, but when Dean Morgan returned to Wingen, France, a small community near the German border, the memories came back.
There was the church where American soldiers were held prisoner.
There was the railroad underpass where he took shelter from gunfire — and a mere 50 yards away, there was the house from which the German fire came.
Nearly 70 years had passed since Morgan was first in Wingen, but for an American soldier fighting for his life, it seemed like yesterday.
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