After a sleepless night in cramped quarters on the ferry, we arrived in France. We started our day right away. After a fantastic breakfast we headed to a Caen-Normandy Memorial Centre for History and Peace.
Above is a one of the twelve memorial stones with a Dwight D. Eisenhower quote. The other eleven stones had peaceful quotes. All twelve stones represent the countries who fought in the D-Day invasion.
This statue symbolizes peace with the twisted barrel of the a gun.
Above are examples of the different kinds of stars that the Jewish people would have to wear. Below is part of the ground that is under the museum that has been framed off. Can you see why? Yes, it is because there are gun shells.
Some of the stuff found around the museum.
Below is a model of a bomb shelter.
Here are some of the pictures from the Pointe du Hoc. Below is a bomb crater.
Below are the remains of a building.
This is a machine gun slot. I set my camera on the ledge and this is the view.
Now I backed away a step and that is how small it was.
This made my group and me feel special.
Then we went to the The American Cemetery where their are 9,387 soldiers buried.
The straight lines of the headstones.
Quentin Roosevelt son of President T. Roosevelt died in World War I. He is the only WWI victim in the whole cemetery. He was buried here because the family wanted him to be with is brother.
Above and below are the two brothers who inspired the movie "Saving Private Ryan".
A fellow Tennessean.
Instead of a cross all Jewish soldiers have the Star of David. Below is the saddest thing ever, the grave of an unknown soldier. There are 307 of these in the American Cemetery in Normandy.
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