D-Day medic haunted by 'the boy on the beach'

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"He was shot through the chest and as he would breathe, the air would blow out of his chest, so I had to seal off the wound," Friedenberg told FoxNews.com. "At the same time, I was hearing 'medic, medic,' from other soldiers. It was a massacre, an absolute massacre, and I was in the middle of it."

Faced with the dilemma of continuing to treat the wounded soldier or turning to others, Friedenberg gave the soldier morphine and moved on. It's a decision that still haunts the 90-year-old New Jersey man long after the invasion that allowed the Allies to gain a foothold in Normandy and begin the march across Europe to defeat Adolf Hitler.
D-Day medic still haunted by 'the boy on the beach' | Fox News
 

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