Michael: "You are a hero, sir."
Mr. Oliveira: "Please, don't praise me."
For the 75th anniversary of D-Day, we decided to invite 97-year-old World War II veteran Tony Oliveira onto the Rock and Fox Show. Mr. Oliveira lived in New Bedford for almost all of his entire life...
This Saturday is December 7th, the day Japan bombed Hawaii in 1941 and killed 3000 Americans. It seems so far away yet one local man is completely connected to this. He exacted his revenge.
These guys should be so well know that everybody knows their names. These 80 men in the shadow of one this nations darkest day risked there lives to strike back at the enemy back in 1942 and pick up America's spirits.
There is a group of very special people in this country who doesn't care what the government says when it comes to the shut down, and frankly, they deserve to have it that way.