D-Day: First-person account powerful, made history real. Re: “On Omaha Beach: June 6, 1944” (Page A1, June 6): I was so grateful for the power of Don Whitehead’s first-person account of the ...

The account by Morton, also a photographer and a National Geographic Explorer grantee, stands along recent first-person essays from the front, including this urgent dispatch by a young ER doc in a ...