The day Gevalt saw dad in D-Day photo in the Beacon Journal
Geoffrey Gevalt, former BJ business editor, wrote this lead in the June 6,
2014 Huffington Post:
“This picture appeared in the newspaper
where I worked on June 5, 1994, a day shy of the 50th anniversary of D-Day. I
was stunned. The man on the far right was my father ,
and I recognized him immediately. I fell into a chair in a heap .
"He'd died seven years previously, and I missed him. And on that moment, I
missed that he'd never told me the story of that day.
“He landed on Omaha Beach 14 minutes after the first wave. Eisenhower had
sent in the docs as a morale booster on the theory that if they were sending in
the docs, it couldn't be that bad.”
Geoffrey was at the BJ 1992-98. In 2006
he left his job as managing editor at the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press
to head the Vermont Young Writers Project. Gevalt worked for eight plus years
at the Detroit Free Press--the last six as managing editor.
To go to Geoffrey’s blog site, click on
To read Geoffrey’s entire story in the Huffington
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