Hilbert Margol says he didn't look on himself as a hero when his U.S. Army artillery unit fought its way across Europe during World War II. But he will be feted in France as one of 60 American veterans of that conflict traveling to Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. 'I know my brother and I never looked at it as we were any kind of heroes, nothing like that,' Margol said recently of himself and his twin brother Howard, who served with him.
Well to me, we fought for freedom, and we fought for peace, and we fought for a good life,' Negra, a native of Avella, Pennsylvania, said in a recent interview. The trip is being organized by Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, the Best Defense Foundation and the North American branch of French tire maker Michelin.