mr. colewell, you were 16 years old when you parachuted in.that. >> just before i left the plane the last words i heard, look to your left, look to your right, one of you will not see daylight. so when i landed i had the little cricket and i found a ditch and i made sure that stayed in the ditch until daylight because i wanted to see daylight. and i was about 20, 25 miles behind enemy lines by mistake because the airplanes were scattered when the ack-ack, from the ground they scattered all over the countryside. like john says, it was scary. 16 years of age, fighting and, my job was to be about a mile from the beach with the 3rd battalion to wipe out, we were told, about 1800 u.s. troops in four hours, told to take in supplies from the ships and took me six days to get back to my unit. i ended up with the 82nd airborne division and there were 17, 18 of us traveled at night to get back up to the beaches with our units. gregg: as you look back on it now and i'm sure you've reflected on it, every year for the rest of your life do you look back and