WEBVTT 00:05.430 --> 00:07.025 - Spell it out? 00:07.025 --> 00:07.858 - [Interviewer] Yes. 00:07.858 --> 00:12.590 - Okay, my name is Sergeant Jamie Delorme, D-E-L-O-R-M-E. 00:12.590 --> 00:15.410 - [Interviewer] And Jamie, G-J-A-I-M-E? 00:15.410 --> 00:17.796 - No, J-A-M-I-E. 00:17.796 --> 00:19.299 - [Interviewer] Okay, well that's why we ask. 00:19.299 --> 00:20.132 - (laughs) Okay. 00:20.132 --> 00:21.461 - [Interviewer] Different from different ways to say it. 00:21.461 --> 00:22.294 - Okay. 00:22.294 --> 00:23.127 - [Interviewer] And what unit are you from? 00:23.127 --> 00:25.120 - I am currently stationed with 00:25.120 --> 00:29.063 the USAREUR Band and Chorus on Cymbach 00:29.063 --> 00:31.410 - [Interviewer] Okay, and where's your hometown? 00:31.410 --> 00:33.829 - My home town is Waukegan, Illinois. 00:33.829 --> 00:35.387 - [Interviewer] Okay, and how do you spell Waukegan? 00:35.387 --> 00:38.800 - W-A-U-K-E-G-A-N I didn't know this 00:38.800 --> 00:40.650 was going to be a spelling test. (laughs) 00:40.650 --> 00:41.970 - [Interviewer] It's all right, we can look it up later so. 00:41.970 --> 00:42.803 - Yeah 00:42.803 --> 00:43.890 - [Interviewer] So to start off, 00:43.890 --> 00:46.720 what is your connection to D-Day? 00:46.720 --> 00:47.780 Or to World War II? 00:47.780 --> 00:52.270 - Well to World War II, I have two connections actually. 00:52.270 --> 00:55.842 My grandfather Ruben Ayala was an infantryman here. 00:55.842 --> 01:00.842 He actually was part of the D-Day operations. 01:00.930 --> 01:02.930 He wouldn't really talk about it too much, 01:02.930 --> 01:04.570 and tell us too many details. 01:04.570 --> 01:09.360 We actually didn't find out he was even here until 2010 01:09.360 --> 01:14.360 when he was given a Bronze Star and he was 01:14.460 --> 01:18.340 awarded his high school diploma because he actually had 01:18.340 --> 01:21.083 to leave high school to come join the war effort. 01:22.420 --> 01:26.300 So it was really humbling to find out 01:26.300 --> 01:28.660 that he had actually been here. 01:28.660 --> 01:30.930 And he talked a little bit about 01:30.930 --> 01:34.380 a French village he liberated. 01:34.380 --> 01:36.530 And how the people would just, 01:36.530 --> 01:38.890 run up to them with open arms 01:38.890 --> 01:42.333 and cry and just throw themselves at their feet. 01:43.210 --> 01:46.070 It was a very emotional time for him 01:46.070 --> 01:48.120 that he really didn't like to talk about. 01:49.870 --> 01:52.270 I found out he has two Bronze Stars from back then 01:52.270 --> 01:56.770 and I would love to know what that was about. 01:56.770 --> 01:59.920 He's passed away so, we can't unfortunately ask him 02:01.350 --> 02:04.181 so yeah, just the stories. 02:04.181 --> 02:07.800 I wish I could have talked to him more about 02:07.800 --> 02:09.600 you know, what had occurred 02:09.600 --> 02:11.350 and thought to ask in my youth. 02:11.350 --> 02:12.183 You don't think about 02:12.183 --> 02:15.190 asking these questions when you're younger. 02:15.190 --> 02:17.390 Um, but you need to ask the questions 02:17.390 --> 02:19.750 especially the youngest people. 02:19.750 --> 02:22.130 The kids out there we need to know. 02:22.130 --> 02:23.390 They need to know. 02:23.390 --> 02:26.250 Because these things are just going to keep happening 02:26.250 --> 02:29.233 if we don't educate the youth of America. 02:30.570 --> 02:32.630 And then, my husband's father 02:32.630 --> 02:35.430 was actually in the Army Air Corps. 02:35.430 --> 02:37.510 And he was part of the relief effort 02:37.510 --> 02:42.190 after the bombs in Nagasaki went. 02:42.190 --> 02:46.180 He was actually on the very first chopper out for relief 02:46.180 --> 02:49.470 and he told us he remembers 02:49.470 --> 02:54.470 flying over and seeing thousands of people just swarm 02:54.930 --> 02:58.730 out of nowhere to the chopper. 02:58.730 --> 03:01.030 And they couldn't land obviously 03:01.030 --> 03:04.330 but people were begging and pleading and reaching out. 03:04.330 --> 03:06.070 And all they could do was just 03:06.070 --> 03:09.303 throw the things off the plane for them. 03:10.860 --> 03:13.910 He said he'd never, ever experienced 03:13.910 --> 03:16.373 or had seen anything like that in his life. 03:17.920 --> 03:21.363 But yeah, so two, two connections actually.