We visited the
American Cemetery in Normandy. It's an amazing site, to see row after row-the crosses or stars of David that mark the graves of the brave soldiers. Some of them are unknown soldiers.
It's impossible to read this wall, but it is covered with names of soldiers and where they were from. These men and women where killed in the war, their bodies are in graves unknown---well, known only to God.
One of the many memorial sites.
An example of the bluffs the soldiers were to climb. Standing on the beach, looking up, I can't imagine what was going through their minds. The Germans waiting for them, shooting as they ran on the beach.
This is one of the many German bunkers. Thick concrete...protection, huge guns on top. Here, you see a small window in the door of a sleep quarters. When the German's heard someone's footsteps, and you weren't one of them....you were killed. This area, the beaches of Normandy are very emotional. Seeing what our soldiers saw, then standing at the top of the bluffs-seeing what they didn't.
We visited the American Cemetery in Normandy. It's an amazing site, to see row after row-the crosses or stars of David that mark the graves of the brave soldiers. Some of them are unknown soldiers.
It's impossible to read this wall, but it is covered with names of soldiers and where they were from. These men and women where killed in the war, their bodies are in graves unknown---well, known only to God. 
One of the many memorial sites.
An example of the bluffs the soldiers were to climb. Standing on the beach, looking up, I can't imagine what was going through their minds. The Germans waiting for them, shooting as they ran on the beach.
This is one of the many German bunkers. Thick concrete...protection, huge guns on top. Here, you see a small window in the door of a sleep quarters. When the German's heard someone's footsteps, and you weren't one of them....you were killed. This area, the beaches of Normandy are very emotional. Seeing what our soldiers saw, then standing at the top of the bluffs-seeing what they didn't.
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