Government Shutdown Spreds to Beaches of Normandy

New York Post ^ | October 2, 2013 | AP

[yldstrk]

PARIS — Tourists travelling to Omaha Beach to pay their respects to the 9,387 military dead at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial will find it closed, a victim of the U.S. government’s partial shutdown.

The site overlooking the D-Day invasion beaches is one of 24 U.S. military cemeteries overseas that have closed to visitors since Monday. Ten more cemeteries in in France, as well as others in various European countries as well as Mexico, Panama, Tunisia and the Philippines, will remain closed for the duration of the shutdown.

[surrey]

We’re traveling from Paris to Normandy along the Seine.

[tumblindice]

While our national monuments and the White House are secure from trespass by Americans, one thing remains unchanged: our southwestern border remains unbarrycaded, unbarackaded.

Has Obama finally achieved his goal yet of changing/transforming America? Or does that not happen until we’re actually shooting one another?

[tumblindice]

“the US government will still have to pay the French employees that work at the cemeteries.”

I see. The cemetery could be open, since we’re paying anyway, but it’s hard for Papa Obama to “ground” the American children and punish them for resisting his will if they are allowed to go out and break `curfew’.

[mass55th]

Sounds like a wonderful cruise. I wish now I had taken the two-day bus tour of Normandy instead the the one-day. Back then the two-day tour took you to the D-Day beaches and St. Laurent Cemetery on the first day, then the second day you visited Mont Saint-Michele and Bayeux, to view the Bayeux Tapestry (Battle of Hastings).

I have a great-uncle from Canada who died in WWI, and is buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery which is in the northern outskirts of Boulogne. I would have liked to have gotten there on that trip but time wouldn't allow it.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Please tell me you are kidding regarding Mt. Rushmore. Since everything is so far removed from reality these days, I’m having trouble knowing what is and isn’t true!

[Moose47]

The GOP could storm Obama Beach.

‘Semper Fi’

[Inspectorette]

We took this cruise last September. It was glorious, and the day at the Normandy beaches was unforgettable. The American cemetery is something that will move you to the core of your soul.