Joshua Dawson thanks his grandfather, who ran one of the boats that ferried soldiers to Omaha Beach:

... In the summer of 2001, I was fortunate enough to visit Normandy – it is one of the most humbling experiences a human can go through. One morning, I walked down to the beach at Omaha Beach, trying to picture what that morning could have looked like. I also tried to imagine how someone like me, at age 18, could have realized the magnitude of the mission they had embarked on. ...