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Danny Deraney
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May 31, 2021
On this #MemorialDay I love to share this video.
French caretakers take the sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy and scrub them into the letters to give them the brown/gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil.
CurtEastPoint
(18,672 posts)a few years ago on June 6, the anniversary of D-Day.
They were made by local school children. This is in Pont l'Eveque, Normandy.
"Thank you for liberating us."
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)intheozone
(1,103 posts)The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)My Father was there and would love this beautiful act.
82nd. He always said he didn't want to get his feet wet.
GB_RN
(2,396 posts)Was a Lt in the 82nd Airborne on D-Day. He was in the door of his plane looking down and could see the flak bursts. Said one was coming up straight at his plane and that was the only time in his life he came close to believing in a god.
StClone
(11,690 posts)My Dad almost was at this beach. Thank goodness for me he was sent to the less hazardous attack on Utah Beach.
wnylib
(21,724 posts)They also gave us the Statue of Liberty.
The gratitude is two way.
Perhaps we should also have an international Memorial Day for people everywhere who gave their lives to the cause of liberty and democracy. I'm thinking of British bomber pilots and the civilians who endured the bombings of London, resistance people in occupied countries, the people who died in concentration camps, the people who helped Jews, Poles, and political prisoners survive or avoid the camps, the people of South Africa who opposed apartheid - every place where people have taken a stand against fascism, communist authoritarianism, colonialism.
They are all heroes of human history.
Pinback
(12,173 posts)oldsoftie
(12,648 posts)I hope the next generations of French continue these traditions
magicguido
(6,315 posts)GB_RN
(2,396 posts)orangecrush
(19,659 posts)yonder
(9,683 posts)Watching that got me all tight in the throat.
kairos12
(12,892 posts)did this at a grave at Belleau Wood. We used sand from the Vets hometown.
Marthe48
(17,083 posts)who fell in WWII
Always remember, never forget
Submariner
(12,513 posts)if we do not arrest the development of the current fascist movement.