D-Day lest we forget

[chykensa]

My family and I holidayed in the Loire Valley last summer but came back to spend a day in Bayeux before catching the ferry home. We went to Arromanches and I can vouch for the quality of the Museum there, it's brilliant, so many displays with captions in English as well as French and the models are stunningly good.
The next morning we visited the cemetery in the centre of Bayeux and then the Museum over the road which was even bigger and better. We had to leave to get the boat otherwise we could have stayed there all day. The French have certainly surpassed themselves with these two museums; well worth a visit.

I kayak regularly up the river Fal where 25,000 American GIs embarked on landing craft and then spent 3 days at sea during a summer storm waiting to get the green light to disembark on foreign soil. The concrete landing jetties and 'chocolate bar' roadways are still to be found at low tide, and even some of the roads in the locale are wider than the normal Cornish hedges due to engineering work by the Yanks to widen the roads, enabling their tanks and trucks to get to the pontoons.

We have a collective responsibility to make sure that war on such a global scale never ever rears it's ugly head again.

I will have a moment of quiet contemplation tomorrow morning, 6th June, to remember all those who didn't come home from that heroic assault on the mainland of Europe which eventually won the war.

[Phoenixflame (Julie)]

[Clivia]

it was such an important day also for those on the other side of the war - those not in favour of the Nazis - those with Jewish ancestry and many more - deepest respect to all brave soldiers

[andy01424]

on our beach today when a Spitfire flew over

[Perpetua]

My Uncle Sid who I never met, fell on the Normandy beaches . . . never to return home again.

So many lives lost, so many families affected.


Wasn't this a fabulous story though . . . I cheered Mr Jordan when I read it.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-27735086

[tmg]

Not to detract from the serious tone of this thread but did anyone see the lady happily vaping away during the ceremony at arromanches?