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D-Day nurse turns 102

Army Nurse Corps veteran Gola Mealey, one of the first nurses to give first aid to wounded soldiers during the D-Day invasion, celebrates her 102nd birthday. 

It's impossible to live as long as Gola Mealey has and not have some stories to tell.

Mealey, who turned 102 on Friday, was among the 500 nurses in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps to land on the beaches of Normandy during World War II.

As a Second Lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps, she vividly remembers sleeping in temporary tents with mud-soaked boots.

"We moved our outfit seven times in the two years, almost three years I was over there," Mealey says.

And although her memories of those times weren't always happy ones, she thinks it's important to tell those stories so we don't forget about the sacrifices the often called "Greatest Generation" was willing to make for their country.

"Trash and bodies, it was an awful sight to see, but I guess it had to be done, seemed like it was the hard way to accomplish anything, but that's the way it was," she says.

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