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| D-Day Vets Meet Just Before Each Has Surgery |
| 2010-10-03 |
| Just before Benjamin Klein's open-heart surgery, his surgeon told him not to be afraid. Mr. Klein, who is 90, scoffed. "He said, 'There's nothing you can do that I can't get through -- I've been through Normandy,' " recalled the surgeon, Dr. Leonard Girardi. the man in the next bed, Victor Allegretti, 86, who later heard Mr. Klein tell hospital staff members about his war service. "My ears perked up like a canary," said Mr. Allegretti, who took such interest because he, too, fought in Normandy during World War II. For the record, there were no presurgery jitters, said Mr. Klein, who now lives in Middletown, N.Y. "After getting out of World War II," he said, "I'm not afraid of nothing and I'm not impressed by nothing." Dr. Girardi called this a hallmark of every World War II veteran he has operated on. My uncle saw the first bomb dropped on Wheeler Field 7 Dec 1941. He said very much the same things whenever he had health problems in his old age. |
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