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Thomas Wilkins, of McLoud, owns books about the war but he doesn't need them to picture June 6, 1944 in Normandy, France.
For decades, he was known only as Unknown X-9352 at a World War II American cemetery in Belgium where he was interred.
It’s been 74 years since World War II’s most important victory, but memories of the battle die hard.
Federal budget cuts to the Department of Defense in recent years sliced into what many military families hold sacred.