Ray’s POV

|Twelve Years Ago|

|Fiumicino, Lazio, Italy|

|April 10th, 1944 12:46 PM |

It was sunny, a cool sixty-five in terms of degrees, which for a desert boy might as well have been below zero as far as I was concerned. But, the pair of soldiers from Pennsylvania—Allentown I believe—assured me that the temperature was perfect. Not too warm, but not too cold, but the sea was as frigid as a witch’s ...