D-Day Landing Sites Then and Now

[[JiF]Brick]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/d-day-landing- ... er-1450286

[[JiF]Lt Gav]

Brick that is a great perspective. Thank you for sharing that site.
I have visited a number of the French beaches & they are now a great place to relax & play. Just a few reminders remain of what our heroes faced 70 years ago!
Thoughts should also go to the French civilians who lost their lives, caught in the middle.
However our gratitude is with the young men who stepped from those boats & jumped from the planes to liberate France & eventually end the war.
I know the following is a WW1 poem which we hear every year at our remembrance parade, but it was still true in WW2

They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam

[[JiF]phantomx]

Powerful pictures. Thanks for sharing.

-- Sat Jun 07, 2014 9:48 pm --

Powerful pictures. Thanks for sharing.

[[JiF]FrenchAfroman]

I m going to do a 2 week historicqal vacation in Nonmandie at the end of the summer, cant wait.

[[JiF]Top321us]

Very good post.
Afro - Dont miss LeMont St Michel. We stayed in Bayeux at the Churchill hotel. They have a shuttle that they take a couple times a week there. It was a great day. I wish we would have stayed another week or so. So much to see!