“there are cemeteries in France where they still lovingly tend to the graves of American GIs who died in WWII for France.”
The local grammar school children have the responsibility of the upkeep of the graves at Normandy. The locals will not let the children forget.
I have been there. the gravesites are impeccable without even a blade of grass being out of place.
>>The local grammar school children have the responsibility of the upkeep of the graves at Normandy. The locals will not let the children forget.
I have been there. the gravesites are impeccable without even a blade of grass being out of place.<<
If I was to ever travel to Europe that would be the only place I would visit.
Thanks for the information and those French are always in my prayers.
Yeah. In Normandy they respect us, elsewhere in france not so much.
In Belgium it’s like that in some places too, as well as in Holland.
My unit took part in the 50th anniversary of Belgium’s liberation, and the older people would come up to us and thank us. They would offer us something to eat or drink. It was pretty cool.