'I cried when I read it': Postcard connects Charlottetown home to D-Day

A postcard arrived in the mailbox of Charlottetown home recently, making a connection between that house and D-Day, June 6, 1944.

The postcard was sent by the Juno Beach Association as part of a project to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

There were 903 Canadians killed during the first five days of the Allied invasion on the beaches of Normandy. The Juno Beach Association is sending postcards to the 400 homes that still remainwherethe soldiers were living when they enlisted, as a wayto reconnect Canadians to this history.

Alana Sprague, livesin one of two homesin Charlottetown thatreceived postcards, the only two on the Island.

"I cried when I read it. It just felt like such an emotional thing putting you in touch with history in such a physical way," said Sprague.

"My son he's 16 years old. He knows some about war. He is very familiar with Remembrance Day. He's always participated in that, but for him to actually know that this gentleman lived here in this house, you know, it's emotional."

The postcard tells the story of Lance Cpl. John Bernard Murray. The 39-year-old Charlottetown man was killed in action June 7, 1944.

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