Photo: Marking the anniversary of the attack on Carentan on June 10-13, 1944. On that day a young man -- Clancy Lyall – lay bayonetted in the stomach on the street in this image--Rue Holgate. He lay wounded for some time before being attended to. He told me, that had it not been for his web belt, the blade would have gone deeper. The great irony is that in 1944 he was carried off of this street bleeding –knocked out of battle, and in 2004 –60 years later—he returned to walk down that same street in victory. On the 60th, he had been a bystander watching those marching past to commeorate, but was soon pulled into the march by one of the officials who spotted him. He had been in the victory march in New York in 1946, but this was something altoghether different on a deeper level. Though morphine and time may have dulled some of the pain of his wound, that day was sharply marked in his memory. Take a few moments to contemplate those wounded and lost in the battle for Carentan. Here is a composite image I created of two photos to illustrate that irony -- one taken in 1944 around the time the town was liberated by the Americans, and one in 2004 celebrating that liberation. Original photo is a U.S. Army Photograph; the 2004 photo of Clancy comes courtesy Peter Van de Wal.