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My name is Sergeant Howard Douglas .

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I'm with the 5 29th Military Police

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Company Company attending the 80th

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d-day celebration . Today we

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accomplished the mission of shooting 21

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sle battery for the cannons . My job

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today was to be a loader doing this job .

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I have to successfully enter the round

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into the Canon . So it fires correctly

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at that point , I will grab another

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round and once that round has expanded ,

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I will enter another round for the next

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round to be shot . My favorite thing I

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learned so far being out here was

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realizing how far the beach was that

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the soldiers had to ride up front with

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no cover at all . It's a very hard

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mission and a lot of soldiers have

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passed away from it , coming to the

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cemetery and shooting the 21 salute

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battery was uh amazing . I feel like

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I've never been able to do this ever

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again and I've always keep this in mind

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for the rest of my life .