T he WWII V eteran W ho E scaped H is N ursing H ome
The Allied invasion of Normandy, France, during WWII is one of the largest scale military assaults in history. Over 156,000 Allied troops stormed five beaches along the coast of northwestern France on June 6, 1944, and began to turn the tide of the war. In the decades that have followed, various D-Day celebrations have taken place on June 6 all over Europe and the United States, commemorating the successful invasion and the role those brave veterans who were a part of it played in defeating Nazi Germany. For those D-Day veterans who are still alive, being a part of those celebrations is incredibly important. One nursing home found that out the hard way six years ago when one of their residents — an 89-year-old D-Day veteran — suddenly went missing on June 5, only to turn up in Normandy on June 6, taking part in events commemorating the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Staff at a nursing home in Hove, Sussex, United Kingdom, were alarmed when Bernard “Bernie” Jordan, a former Royal Navy Officer, did not return from his trip into town on the morning of June 5, 2014. It turned out later that
he hadn’t planned on returning that day, but instead had secretly donned his war medals underneath his raincoat and taken a ferry across the English Channel to Normandy, to join his fellow veterans in Normandy for the ceremonies. He had gone out in secret because his nursing home had initially told him he couldn’t go. The nursing home received a phone call later that evening from another veteran, who said he had joined Jordan on the ferry, and they were both safe and sound at a hotel in France. Later on, some of Jordan’s friends said they would make sure he returned safely back to the nursing home when the ceremonies were done. To be fair, the nursing home staff should have figured that if the Germans couldn’t keep him out of Normandy, they probably couldn’t either.
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