When asked if he’s a hero, 100-year-old WWII Navy Veteran Emerson Pell gave a short, modest response: “I was just a normal guy.”
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When asked if he’s a hero, 100-year-old WWII Navy Veteran Emerson Pell gave a short, modest response. After pausing for a moment, thinking, then shrugging his shoulders, he said, “I was just a normal guy.”
A “normal guy” who dropped depth charges to damage enemy subs, survived a plane crash—11 hours on the water with swarming sharks—and served on the Galapagos Islands during wartime. Normal is relative.
