Cards wanted for Portsmouth D-Day vet alone for 98th birthday
Hadley Barndollar
Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH – A D-Day veteran, one of the first to storm Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, is slated to spend his 98th birthday alone next week.
Because of COVID-19, Raymond "Red' Goulet can't have visitors or get outside to make his usual social rounds. He also doesn't have a computer.
Friends, loved ones and complete strangers have taken to social media to solicit birthday cards be mailed to Goulet – who lives in the Portsmouth Housing Authority's Margeson Apartments – for his birthday on Thursday, Jan. 14. While the cards won't replace the genuineness of human connection, they'll let a World War II veteran know he hasn't been forgotten amid a state of the world where so many elderly have been forced to isolate.
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