Nashua Police and Fire Rescue color guards lead Monday's Nashua Memorial Day parade down Main St. Many of the participants in today's parade are veterans of World War II, including Legion Post 3 members, William Powell, Roland Caron, and Albert Coffey. Members of VFW Post 483 include WWII veterans, 82 year old Omer Cote and 84 year old Louis Prince. Prince considers himself lucky to have made it back after 31 months of fighting in North Africa, Italy, France and Germany, including 133 straight combat days on the front lines of the war. "How did I make it? I don't know," he said. "It makes you wonder why some made it and some didn't."
Prince was at the Battle of the Bulge near the German and Belgian border where more than a million men fought for more than a month with nearly 200,000 men killed, captured or wounded. Prince, a decorated veteran, wears a medal for the Ardennes Offensive around his neck. He went on to see the liberation of a concentration camp. He fought alongside some men who were wounded three or four times and would always want to rejoin their unit. "I think about them every day, especially on a day like today," Prince said. "You think about these guys who gave it all.
