Although, we had an idea that the roads were going to be chokker, we still decided to go to the Omaha Beach, U.S. Cemetery.
Yesterday, the French-US ceremony was held here, I've found one of the speeches that the French President, President Francois Hollande gave:
Quoted from the Gaurdian Blog:
Today we commemorate a memorable date in our history, where our two peoples merged in the same fight … the battle of liberty.
6 June 1944 was a horrendous battlefield. That is what we try to remember here, 70 years later.
On that morning, everything started on the wrong footing. On Omaha beach, the artillery missed its targets. The tanks that should have supported the infantry drowned.
Scores of them were killed, massacred. They were faced with a sea of blood.
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| Soldiers looking across Omaha Landing Beach |
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| Overlooking the Omaha Beach from the Cemetery |
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| A path snakes down from the Cemetery to the Beach |
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| More ceremonies occurring throughout the day |
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| Plan of the June 6th, 1944 Landings |
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| Wreaths laid yesterday |
I was asked by my sister-in-law what was our endearing memory of our week in Normandy. Mine, was when Ant and his brother, Alan, shook hands with two British Veterans and listened to their experiences on the Landing Beaches.
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