Air Force veterans salutes the Greatest Generation while attending the 80th anniversary of D-Day Normandy invasion.
Dan Woodward
Daniel P. Woodward is a retired Air Force brigadier general, a presidentially appointed commissioner with the American Battle Monuments Commission, and the executive director of Arnold Air Society and Silver Wings. Dan is a 2022 War Horse fellow.
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The True Consequence of War Demands Generations of Profound Loss
In an instantaneous flash of violence, the hopes and dreams they’d woven vanished in the dirt 5,000 miles from home.
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‘I’ll Be Your Wingman’–I Was a Pilot. They Were My Brothers. I Can Still Feel Them.
As we talked, my friends helped me answer the question of “why.” Why them and not me? Why that day? Why that way?
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‘Lead, Follow, or Get out of the Way’–We Really Did Live That Way.
Both aircraft exploded. … Tony, Tom, and Will, Tony’s student, touched the hand of God, and chaos shoved itself into the lives of everyone they knew.
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We All Have Stories. After All, We Didn’t Just Watch History, We Made It.
Inspiration abounds, and in uniform, it is everywhere, every day, because every day we do things of consequence for our nation.
