70th Anniversary of D-Day

[Fidel_Castronaut]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27700479

I've been to the Normandy beaches and seen the memorials over France from the 2 world wars.

If you've never been it's very emotional. IT's difficult to stand there and read those names without feeling something deeply sad within you. I've never seen the horror of war except through archive footage or news reports, but you get a very small feel for what it's like just standing somewhere surrounded by the signs of death and destruction.

Those poor sods that crossed the channel, never to see home again. Many still teenagers. I've lived a decade longer already than some of them.

I would like to go to the Normandy beaches and memorials, I've heard it's emotional and beautiful keep. I've been to pearl Harbor and the memorials there. I had an uncle who was at Pearl Harbor when the attack came, he survived, only one killed on his ship. His ship was one of the most hunted ships in the Pacific by the Japanese. They pissed those boys off and they made the them pay.

GC

It really is GC, and I'd certainly recommend it. It's a beautiful part of the world anyway so there's plenty to do aside from visiting the beaches and memorials.

I don't have anywhere near enough money to travel to Hawaii but if I ever do PH will be top of my list.