Glen Jostad had a vivid memory.
Sixty-five years after U.S. forces liberated him from a prisoner of war camp in Germany, Jostad still shared his experiences with veterans and history enthusiasts with exceptional attention to detail.
"[It was] so sincere that you felt it," his friend Don Loeslie recalled.
"He could retain every single sentence of his whole life, it seemed like."
Jostad, of Brownsville, Minn., died quietly Feb. 20 at age 87 of complications from a fall.
Jostad received numerous medals for his service during World War II, and his friends and family regard him as a war hero who never sought the limelight that his experiences deserved.
In February 1944, Jostad's plane was shot down over France. He convinced the last crew member to bail out, saving his life.
He was captured and held for 15 months at several POW camps in Lithuania, Poland and Germany.