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Originally Posted by TheProfessor
As stated in a previous post.
Have been to Normandy France on a June 6.
Visited all beaches and Sainte-Mère-Eglise. Red Buttons (John Steele) is still hanging from church.
The French in this area at this time do love Americans. Had two French locals come up and thank us. They heard us speaking "American".
The Churchill Hotel in Bayeux was 100% booked.
Lot's of reenactors and ceremonies.
And the cemetery - as seen in Saving Private Ryan - is breathtaking.
Way too many stones had the name Unknown.
Hope the future generations keep these sacrifices in the forefront.
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Thanks for your recollections. I visited Omaha Beach (and Bayeux). It really deserves a second visit of greater duration. I've visited other places, as we all have (Lexington and Concors, Gettysburg, etc) but Normandy, as preserved by the French, is really history you can see and be touched.