'The Fallen 9000' honors lives lost on D-Day

[sheshe2]

Artists Andy Moss and Jamie Wardley organized volunteers to create their art project 'The Fallen 9000' on September 21, 2013. The event, which was part of International Peace Day, was organized to commemorate those Canadian, American, British and German citizens who lost their lives on D-Day. The gathered on Arromanches beach in Normandy, Frances to stencil images of fallen soldiers in the sand, only to have the tide wash them away at the end of the day.





More pictures at the link~

http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/the-fallen-9000-honours-lives-lost-on-d-day-slideshow/the-fallen-9000-sand-art-project-to-honour-those-killed-at-arromanches-on-d-day-photo-1380141723915.html

[Stuart G]

1. So many don't know about D Day today..how sad...

[uppityperson]

2. K&r, will need to ask my Norman relatives if they saw this

[sheshe2]

3. Let me know if they did, UP.

What a beautiful tribute to honor so many lives lost. I find it fitting that the sea would pick up the images in the end and carry them back in a gentle sea.