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Winner of the 2009 National Indie Excellence Awards - Military History Non-Fiction Category - May 11, 2009.
Welcome to my website!
I'm Don Busi, author of Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Please feel free to browse the site. I will be adding many more pages with interesting information and links to help you further understand one of our country's most significant historical events. We must never forget a brave generation who sacrificed their all so that we may be free. "Lest we forget!"
About the Author
Don Busi spent more than two years researching World War II and has conducted several hundred hours of interviews with his father and other veterans. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in education from Central Connecticut State University and has worked in the medical business for more than twenty years. Don lives in Castle Rock, Colorado.
About my latest book, Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Joe Busi's hard labor as a Pennsylvania coal miner and his life in abject poverty could not have made him any tougher. But no amount of toughness could prepare him for what was to come after he was inducted into the United States Army in 1942. On June 6, 1944, Joe was thrust into the greatest amphibious assault in human history-D-Day on the beaches of Normandy, France.
His ability to survive D-Day only meant he had to endure six more months of brutality that stretched the limits of human endurance. Joe witnessed death and destruction beyond belief. He became an efficient killing machine and accepted the fact that he, too, would eventually be killed. He received the Silver and Bronze Stars for his bravery, but his luck came to an end on a frigid December morning on a snowy Belgian battlefield. Critically wounded from the Nazi onslaught known as the Battle of the Bulge, he prayed his death would be quick.
After experiencing sixty-one years of heart-wrenching survival guilt, eighty-five year old Joe returned to Europe and was overwhelmed by the gratitude of the Europeans. His story and how he overcame the odds against survival is as amazing as the man himself.
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 "A must for anyone who loves the people stories in World War II." March 17, 2009 Some wounds never heal. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door: A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice" tells of a son researching the deeds of his father in World War II. Joe Busi was one of the thousands of Americans who fought in the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, and went through the hell of warfare, only to be nearly fatally injured in the Battle of the Bulge. What he experienced changed him, and he lived with guilt until he returned to the source of that guilt, decades later. A story of overcoming the personal aftermath of war, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a must for anyone who loves the people stories in World War II.
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 Author Don Busi
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