The Last Suit He Ever Wore

When 94-year-old D-Day veteran Harold "Hal" Gruber of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was buried in 2019, his family dressed him in his Army dress uniform — the same one he'd worn when he stormed Omaha Beach at twenty years old. The jacket no longer fit the way it once had. The wool was faded, the brass tarnished. His body, ravaged by decades and disease, bore little resemblance to the young soldier who had charged into gunfire on a French shoreline.…