Carl Mann stormed Omaha Beach; he'll be buried at Arlington on the D-Day anniversary

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Freedom is a jealous woman.

She wants to be courted. She wants to be shown off. She wants people to take her out and appreciate her. She wants everybody to discuss and even brag about her.

If you aren’t willing to do those things up to and including the point of death, freedom will leave. She will go somewhere else that’s willing to fight for her and defend her and date her and talk about her.

At least, that’s what Carl Mann believed to be freedom. Tears would sometimes trickle down his face, beneath his glasses and World War II veteran hat, before he finished his story.

“Don’t ever let her leave here,” he would tell family and Evansville-area school children. “I’ve been places where she wasn’t, and those people wish they had what we have. Don’t let her go.”