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On saturday, my friend's fiance was back again so this meant another day trip.
This day trip had an american theme. We visited a town called Saint Mere Eglise, a town famous for WWII. Many parachutists were dropped around this area and one american trooper got stuck on the church spire for two days (he played dead but was subsequently captured) where his parachute remains to this day!
There is an american airforce museum in the town centre now so we went to visit the museum and also to shelter from the rain. It rained, and rained and rained and rained. After visiting the museum as it was absolutely chucking it down, we couldnt sightsee so got back in the car and headed to the american cemetery at Omaha beach.
To see the landing beaches was our original intention but it was chucking down so much rain that it wouldnt have been an enjoyable visit. We did see Omaha beach, as you will see from my new pictures, as the american cemetery overlooks the sea.
The cemetery is an incredible sight, so vast, it really takes your breath away. It is very different to the British one in layout, in size and in feeling but equally as humbling an experience. Rows and rows of crosses and, which I hadnt seen in the british cemetery, stars of david, signifying all the lives lost, a lot of them on and around the beach below.
We walked a quarter of the cemetery as it was continuing to pour and it does feel like a very personal place. We saw a man in uniform in the distance with a bunch of flowers searching out certain spots and laying flowers, he was so far in the distance that we couldnt make out his age, just that he wore a beret and it is the time you feel you no longer want to intrude.
So... back to Caen and ended the day with a Subway sandwich... an american fast food chain of course!
À la prochaine
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