Why one historian uses social media to remember D-Day in real time

At the National World War II Memorial, historian Alex Kershaw has found an unlikely way to keep D-Day alive: live social media posts timed to the events of June 6, 1944. ADRIAN FLORIDO, HOST: Eighty-two years ago today, an Allied army came ashore in Normandy to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. NPR's Henry Larson met a man determined to keep memories of the D-Day invasion alive as vivid as if it were happening today. HENRY LARSON, BYLINE: A trip to the World War II Memorial in the hours before the anniversary of Operation Overlord will find you plenty of tourists. PAUL GOODE: We took a family vacation. My wife's trying to kill me with all the walking and stuff. LARSON: Paul Goode (ph) was visiting from Mississippi, but he wasn't aware of the anniversary. GOODE: Honestly, until you just said it, I didn't think about D-Day 'cause I had a grandfather that went on the beach at Normandy a few days after D-Day that he used to talk about. He's passed since then. LARSON: Goode wasn't alone. Lots of folks weren't clocking the commemoration of the day more than 100,000 soldiers stormed the beaches and countryside of occupied France. But off to the side of the memorial, away from the fountains and the towering columns, I met up with someone who could tell the story of the people who fought that day like it had just happened. ALEX KERSHAW: Right now, on D-Day, he's lying on a bunch of rocks on Omaha Beach in Dog Green Sector, and he's in extraordinary emotional trauma. …