Staff writer Paul Wood's 'Those Who Served' series has documented the lives and thoughts of a few local veterans who saw action on D-Day, and they're all saved for posterity at our special website, usveterans.news-gazette.com. It's almost impossible to imagine what was going through the minds of the soldiers, sailors and airmen who were part of the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France during World War II. And it's becoming even harder to ask them and to tell their stories, as so many have passed on since that fateful day exactly 75 years ago. read more