I suppose they were trying to pay tribute or something. It is as 2 dimensional and shallow as Obama’s brain.
The blood that was shed and the young men’s lives lost cannot be fathomed. This representation is yet again an artsy way to be what sympathetic. Solemnity requires honor to be silent. This presentation is, to me, just slightly above obscene
Yes. I was just thinking that the best thing about this project is that the next tide will wash it away.
They certainly meant well. But. . . .
And, "...stark visual reminder of the civilians, Germans and allied forces..." -- pffft, why the Germans? they were why our soldiers & the civilians died! Someone didn't think that one through.
At least there is some remembrance in that presentation, whether it be artsy or solemn. I graduated HS in Ottawa, Canada in 1980. At that time, several of my similarly aged cousins from a small town HS outside of Ottawa. None could identify what June 4, 1944 represented, nor could they tell me what D-Day was. They could not even identify the significance of, ‘the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month’ in 1918! They are not stupid people, only the result of a socialist education system.
Not only that but it also memorializes the Nazi defenders - all part of the 9,000.