Eleven photographs. That’s all that exists of the Allies’ first-wave assault of Normandy’s beaches on D-Day: the free world’s monumental effort to liberate Western Europe from its Nazi plague. It was the largest amphibious invasion ever conducted, but just 11 blurry black-and-white photos of American soldiers desperately wading through the obstacle-filled surf toward Omaha beach…

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Rory Hamill later described it as a moment of clarity. A moment when the image of his children flashed through his mind. Sitting in a Walmart parking lot, the 31-year-old Marine Corps veteran lowered the .40-caliber pistol from his head, disassembled it, and threw the pieces away. Rory, who lost a leg to an improvised…

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