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Memorial Day: Notes from Normandy

Submitted by HongPong on Mon, 2008-05-26 22:17.

In honor of Memorial Day, some photos from the family trip last summer to Normandy would be in order.

Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial - Wikipedia

American Battle Monuments Commission: NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL.

Here's the battle plan wall from the memorial area:

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The matrix of headstones gave us a visually harmonious, but emotionally daunting, pattern to walk through.

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Many graves were anonymously marked:

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Entrance to one of the German bunkers seized by the Allies on D-Day:

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An obelisk on the top of the ridge memorialized some soldiers:

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Here's a view looking upwards from the landing beach, towards the bluff and the cemetery:
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One of the more striking elements were the Jewish soldiers' graves: they had Star of David headstones:

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The sky was impressive that day. The jetstream had unseasonably shifted over northern France, so weather patterns came blasting over us, with brief rain at the Normandy cemetery. This weather anomaly also played a role in the mass flooding that was striking the United Kingdom, and the extreme dryness generating fires across the eastern Mediterranean basin. However, it produced really amazing skies for us.

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