NEW YORK VETERANS HOME ON RICHMOND AVENUE IN ALAMO WORLD WAR. 2 VETERANS WERE HONORED FOR THEIR SERVICE. OUR 7 NEWS ANCHOR LELAND WAS THERE.
>> AND ALL NEW THIS MORNING, SHE'S BRINGING US THE VOICES OF THOSE VETERANS TELLING US WHAT THEY REMEMBER ABOUT D-DAY. NOW, 80 YEARS LATER.
>> SO YOU WERE 18 WHEN YOU SERVED IN YOUR 99 YEARS OLD NOW? WORLD WAR. 2 VETERANS ARE BEING HONORED ON THIS 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY FOR JOSEPH BECAUSE MEMORIES OF THE
WAR HAVEN'T FADED WITH TIME.
>> OUR COMPANY'S WORST HELP OPPORTUNITIES ALONG THE BEACH.
THERE ARE ASKING FOR VOLUNTEERS. I CALL ABI THERE IN THE MORNING ARE TRYING TO HAPPEN WITH THOSE JAPANESE AIRPLANE CAME AND DROPPED A BOMB RIGHT ON TOP OF THEM AND
KILL THEM ALL. WE HAVE DARK AND IT LASTED ALL NIGHT LONG AND WE'RE TO HIDE AT ALL.
WE'RE GETTING THIS TRAPPED.
ALL RIGHT. AS FROM THERE ON SURE A U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS VETERAN HERMAN PAP PALICKI IS 103 YEARS OLD OR A BOMBER PILOT.
>> I WANT DO.
>> ABOUT WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO SERVE?
>> MY I ANYTHING FOR I DO AGAIN. I ADD WORD. BOURKE IS 96.
>> I HAD A STROKE.
>> IT'S A I DON'T REMEMBER A LOT OF THINGS. ENTERED IN 17 YEARS CLAYTON VO WAS IN THE U.S. ARMY. YOU REMEMBER WAS GOING THROUGH YOUR MIND WHEN YOU FOUND OUT YOU WERE
DRAFTED.
>> REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO GO. I REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE WHILE HE'S THANKFUL HE MADE IT HOME ALIVE. THE SADNESS REMAIN SURROUNDING THOSE WHO NEVER MADE IT HOME. IT STOPPED TO
THINK ABOUT.
>> WAS SO LONG BUT STILL GOOD FRIENDS OF MINE HAS GUYS OVER COME BACK IN THE MORNING.
THERE >> BUT REBOUND