Thanks for posting. Very emotional article. My father in law was at Utah beach...RIP.
A German family was part of our tour party - after the tour was over I asked our guide (lifetime resident of Caen and a former history professor) how she felt about Germans today, given what they did to France during the war. She said she didn't mind them - it was the British they hated!
That is a great read.
Thanks for posting this.
Reading Stephen Ambrose’s “Band of Brothers” and then going to Normandy, spending a few days there, and around this same time of year, I hear Rush, here, loud and clear.
I know he was glad to go in the anonymous state; incognito.
Touring the villages, where the Airborne took Normandy from the other side, closing in, is an important part of the trip.
We were in a Catholic church in, probably St. Mere Eglise, and I looked up to see about what symbols they had on the stained glass windows, wondering what saints they took patronage in, and the images were not saints nor the Holy Family, nor the Trinity, but they were images of paratroopers falling gracefully.
The windows had been blown out by the bombs and they were replaced, by the French locals, with images of paratroopers, Americans.
WE stayed in a wonderful farmhouse B&B, whose owner’s family had been there all these years.
The whole place is preserved. It’s a museum
The bunkers are still at the beach.
One of the best parts of the trip: our traveling companion could not locate a Burger King. Stuck with French food that Americans hate.
I don’t know, sole, with béchamel sauce and wine with lunch, French burgers with fries and salad with red wine, overlooking the English Channel, and my fond fellow Americans are turning up their noses to “green stuff”
Well, God Bless our heroic DDay troops, my uncle Mike O’Connor and God Bless the USA.
Let’s see if we can’t get someone other than that horrible BO to go over for us next year for year 70.
Great read!
