[dfwgator]

I visited Normandy a couple of weeks ago. It was a package tour thru the National WWII Museum. Recommended, for those who can spare the time and the shekels. About 30 in the group, plus an expediter, and a tour guide who was a local who has a Master’s Degree in history. Very interesting.

I was on a Tour at the American Cemetery, we only had about 45 minutes or so to walk through it, but I could have easily spent an entire day there.

Also, nearby there is the German cemetery, which is still well maintained, it's a real surreal experience to go there, I just tell myself that most of those soldiers were caught in a whirlwind and didn't have much of a choice, must were just kids when Hitler came to power.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

nearby there is the German cemetery, which is still well maintained, it's a real surreal experience to go there, I just tell myself that most of those soldiers were caught in a whirlwind and didn't have much of a choice, must were just kids when Hitler came to power.

The victims of the Falaise Pocket were directed by Hitler to undertake a suicidal attack, which the Allies kept thinking they would have the sense to abort. But, especially because of Hitler’s having so recently survived that assassin’s bomb, Hitler brooked no dissent and the required obedience to a commitment of all available reserves to an attack. Once that failed, there was no choice but retreat through enemy territory with horrendous losses.

But none of the people in the attack necessarily believed it could be anything but disastrous.