Airborne Vets Unearth Old Emotions In New World War II Oral History By Steve Vogel (EXCERPT) When Patrick O'Donnell first approached Jack Trovato and asked him to talk about his World War II combat experiences, the Airborne veteran told the earnest young man to get lost. I told him no in no uncertain terms, said Trovato, a 75-year-old resident of McLean who has never relished telling war stories. O'Donnell, a Fairfax Station resident and 1992 graduate of American University, has been fascinated with World War II history since he was a boy and had been assembling oral histories from veterans for years. O'Donnell didn't give up and, eventually, Trovato relented. I got to thinking, and I felt I had a responsibility to all the people who were killed over there