A 98-year-old veteran of World War II says if former President Donald Trump were the commander in chief again, he “would reenlist today.”
“I would storm whatever beach my country … needs me to,” long-retired Sgt. William Pekrul declared in his speech on the third night of the quadrennial Republican National Convention.
Pekrul introduced himself to the audience in Milwaukee on Wednesday night as “a proud Wisconsinite,” husband, and father of 11 children. He shared his war experiences, among them the horrors he witnessed at “the Nazi war camps.”
“In the Battle of the Bulge, my friends and I fought to stop the Nazis’ last major portion of the Western Front,” he said. “We found out later Hitler was dead. The Nazis were defeated. We gave thanks to Almighty God for delivering us from…
