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November 13, 2000

Lest We Forget, Day 2 – The Memorial de Caen, Juno and Gold Beach

Filed under: Normandy — Wendy @ 1:23 pm

Sunday we visited the Memorial de Caen. It’s a museum which relates the events which lead up to the D-Day landing, and has a memorial to the Canadian and American soldiers in the gardens behind it. The British are currently building a memorial. More Canadians were actually killed liberating Caen than on D-day itself. ... (read more →)

Lest We Forget – Omaha Beach, Pointe Du Hoc and the American Cemetery

Filed under: Normandy — Wendy @ 1:02 pm

For Remembrance Day/Armistice Day/Veteran’s Day (November 11th), we spent the weekend visiting the D-Day Beaches in Normandy.  We started at a memorial to the parachutists who landed near Sainte Mere-Eglise. One of them got stuck on the church steeple and the locals risked their lives to give him a proper burial. 
Then we went on ... (read more →)