All the exchange students visited Normandy on the Fourth of July, a very moving experience. For Independence Day, we had temporarily returned to American soil, as the WWII cemetery was gifted to the United States by France after the war. On Omaha Beach, the site of first debarkation on D-Day (Jour J), we sang the national anthem, our sole contact with English after half the summer. I had never before visited the memorial, and the sight of so many perfectly aligned white crosses covering the lawns was powerful.
Upon entering we were each given a flower and the name of a soldier to locate who had never before received flowers on his tomb.
No comments:
Post a Comment