PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — That nice old man who makes the wonderful pea soup for his neighbors and recently discovered a talent for folk art has seen things, terrible things.

“About 2 in the morning, we hit the beach,” remembers 93-year-old Jake Joseph, a World War II Army sergeant who waited in a floating “matchbox” patrol boat for his unit’s turn to storm the beaches of Normandy as part of the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944.