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Well, unable to post any pics, but here in Calais France farmers are spreading fertilizer. , manure, cultivating and seeding. Lots of winter wheat, no corn or beans. Spent 2 days in Normandy, or Juno beach, and Omaha beach. Very moving, we should all be very grateful and proud of those young soldiers and what they accomplished again st huge odds. Strongly encourage everyone to visit it and the Canadian Memorial at Vimy Ridge. You will have a much greater appreciation of your country,s great deeds performed for the free world.
Pics when I get home next weekBen
 
Not many left anymore. My wife's uncle got to see Normandy a couple years ago. He was in France during the war. He is gone now. Stan
 
The Valuer of those men was unbelievable, an old neighbor of mine was on the second wave at Omaha Beach he would talk about it once and a while, it was very much like in the movie "Saving Private Ryan" he said the water was red with blood...
 
I heard of a GI that went in on D-day and went back to France many years later. Some one wanted to see his passport. He told them "you didn't ask for one in 1944 and I didn't have one then and I don't need one now" End of conversation!

Fred
 
My parents went a few years ago, and shared the experience with a veteran. When told about the cemetery, the veteran responded with, "Do you think anyone is buried there?"

You see, he was involved with the aftermath of the Battle of the Bulge, helping "clean up." Had to remove and help process dog tags, etc. He said with a few tears that they opened a pit with a bulldozer, and put a lot of the remains in. It was too much of a mess for an orderly cemetery, and there were too many unidentified pieces.

And so he was wondering about Normandy. Did the same happen there? If it did, at least the dead are honored with the current cemetery.
 
Hello Ben
Agree with you my friend. My Dad landed on Utah, then they pushed them out of France, he thought they would send him home after that, but they did move him back from Bastogne just three days before the Battle of the Bulge, so we know what happen there.
 
My Dad told me a superior officer told him, to go see the cemetery, he said that way you will know where they bury you. Every time I watch Saving Private Ryan, and they are at that grave yard, I think of my Dad going there.
 
Dad landed at Omaha, as did my Uncle Frank. Uncle Frank was KIA at St. Lo about a week later and is buried at Normandy.
 
I could have looked up the grave had I known we would be there. Grateful for his sacrifice just the same. Ben
 
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