When it comes to NASCAR Veterans Day stories, the tale of teenage Bud Moore -- a future NASCAR Hall of Famer if there ever was one -- hitting the beach at Normandy never gets old. On Wednesday we recalled it again.
Moore, who won 63 races and 43 poles as a team owner and crew chief, served in the European Theater. He survived perhaps the most brutal year ever endured by American armed forces, hitting Utah Beach on D-Day and moving inland to outlast the frozen forest of the Battle of the Bulge. Along the way, he earned two fistfuls of medals, and at one point he and a fellow soldier captured an entire platoon of Germans.