70th Anniversary of D-Day
June 5, 2014 at 5:40 am
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2014 at 5:42 am by 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'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.
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