" On the beach, men saw Father Lacy “go down to the water’s edge and pull the dead, dying, and wounded from the water and put them in relatively protected positions. He didn’t stop at that, but prayed for them and with them, gave comfort to the wounded and dying. A real man of God.”22 "

― Stephen E. Ambrose , D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches