On D-Day’s 80th anniversary, volunteers knit for victory with ‘The Longest Yarn’
On June 6, 1944, Harry Kulkowitz had just pushed out onto Utah Beach with the 114th Signal Battalion when he found himself crouching behind a low hedge. When he heard murmuring, he assumed it was an enemy soldier and shot into the dark. The voice went silent.
It was only the next morning that Mr. Kulkowitz realized he had killed a cow.
As a vacation rental operator, British native Tansy Forster was sometimes privy to war stories like these. In 2004, Mr. Kulkowitz and his son Mark stayed in her Normandy home. They continued to come every year until Harry Kulkowitz’s death in 2017. But, Ms. Forster says, “most veterans didn’t want to
