Excellent history lesson
A large
percentage of our country doesn't know of or cares about Normandy. My guess is
it has been removed from the text in History Books
A few
weekends ago, (9/25/13) British artists Jamie, accompanied by numerous
volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to
etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen
9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of those who
died during the D-Day beach landings at Arromanches on June 6th, 1944 during
WWII. The original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but as word spread nearly
500 additional local residents arrived to help with the temporary installation
that lasted only a few hours before being washed away by the tide.
9,000
Fallen Soldiers Etched into the Sand on Normandy Beach to Commemorate Peace Day
on September 25, 2013
What
is surprising to me is that I read or saw nothing about this here in the
US. An overseas friend sent it to me with a note of gratitude for what
the US started there.
2 comments:
Maybe June 6, 2014 needs to be the Day that America Invades Washington D.C. For D-Day II!
We The People tell them that there will be an Invasion, or else ALL Government Officials MUST Resign Before Then!
http://www.army.mil/d-day/
The Fallen 9000 ? I guess the Russians would need the entire continent to cover with the bodies of their 32 MILLION fallen soldiers and civilians, who had already been fighting Hitler for 3 years, before the Fallen 9000 even got there...
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