(Note: today's game starts at 1pm on YES. Perhaps they'll show this on the pre-game show)Decorated D-Day vet from Hackensack to be honored againJune 4, 2014, 10:26 PM Last updated: Wednesday, June 4, 2014, 11:00 PM
By JEFF ROBERTS
staff writer
The Record
By the time he turned 20, Lee D’Arminio had worked as a buttonhole operator in a Bergen County coat factory and a machinist for Wright Aeronautics. His star turn as a third baseman for the Comets would later earn him induction into the Hackensack High School Hall of Fame — despite playing only one full season because he also held down an after-school job.
Then came the draft — and Omaha Beach.
An ordinary young man began to do extraordinary things.
D’Arminio was a frightened kid, away from home for the first time, when he stormed the shores of Normandy, France, on the second day of the D-Day invasion. It was his first taste of action.
Soaked and weighed down by a heavy pack, the Army medic followed the lead of a sergeant onto the beachhead. When the sergeant dived for cover, so did Private D’Arminio.
He landed on a dead soldier.
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