tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post5904690693100642931..comments2024-03-08T04:04:45.132-08:00Comments on Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax and Cabbages and Kings: D Day, The 6th of June, 1944, A Huge Turning Pointloverofwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763349886822924646noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-39134869936130738522013-06-26T11:55:48.571-07:002013-06-26T11:55:48.571-07:00I"ve been in France on two D-Day anniversarie...I"ve been in France on two D-Day anniversaries, in Brittany in 2001 and in LaRochelle (where there are vast fortifications from wars centuries-past) in 2013. Both times I have given myself some time to reflect on what it must have been like to have been there on June 6, 1944. What did people know? What were they thinking, hoping for? The Normandy beaches, which I visited a few weeks later in 2001, looked so normal---children playing, families picnicking, people strolling. I wonder how many generations it will take before their significance pales, like the LaRochelle and Ile de Re fortifications, historical relics. <br />If you have the opportunity, visit all the D-Day beaches, the cemetery, and the monuments.pam levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07781702179761769967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-14865609941724211462013-06-11T14:44:52.563-07:002013-06-11T14:44:52.563-07:00Hi Hilary: Thanks for your thoughts. Now I am wat...Hi Hilary: Thanks for your thoughts. Now I am watching "Foyles" war -- did you see the series set in Britain during the early years of WW2? The acting is superb, the stories based on true events, the attention to detail, perfect. loverofwordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05763349886822924646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-60597217961891011182013-06-11T00:26:56.629-07:002013-06-11T00:26:56.629-07:00Hi Tasha .. there's been a lot going over here...Hi Tasha .. there's been a lot going over here .. and in Europe .. the momentum is building for a 100 years from the start of World War 1 ... <br /><br />It is remembered here though I suspect many many more do not understand at all .. or think about it properly .. <br /><br />The effects of those two wars were awful, just dreadful .. and as you rightly note we should be so grateful for all that was done for us to be able to be free today ..<br /><br />With thoughts - HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17596532480645510678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-56596837463774645642013-06-06T21:18:43.657-07:002013-06-06T21:18:43.657-07:00Thank you Susan, I hope we do. The political clim...Thank you Susan, I hope we do. The political climate here in the United States would rather that we would not remember.loverofwordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05763349886822924646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-69996690630639800722013-06-06T19:41:49.268-07:002013-06-06T19:41:49.268-07:00Thank you. Most who fought that day are gone now, ...Thank you. Most who fought that day are gone now, so it's up to the rest of us to remember.Susan Flett Swiderskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09425315552148200073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-86437253852776389052013-06-06T17:49:57.180-07:002013-06-06T17:49:57.180-07:00Australians were our allies as well. The stories a...Australians were our allies as well. The stories are on Google, many I had not heard of before.loverofwordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05763349886822924646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-24268840337844406342013-06-06T17:40:50.123-07:002013-06-06T17:40:50.123-07:00I think that people of a certain age still do and ...I think that people of a certain age still do and those that have, shared their stories, if they could, with their children, their grandchildren and their great grandchildren. So many brave men. loverofwordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05763349886822924646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-72829631647116646552013-06-06T17:20:22.682-07:002013-06-06T17:20:22.682-07:00Having lived through it, although as a child, I ce...Having lived through it, although as a child, I certainly remember it, and I suspect you would find lots of Europeans do still. My husband being a few years older remembers it even better.<br /><br /><a href="http://henderson-jo.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">JO ON FOOD, MY TRAVELS AND A SCENT OF CHOCOLATE</a><br />Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14087140585742801854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-38087401162363201702013-06-06T14:04:00.126-07:002013-06-06T14:04:00.126-07:00Don't quite know what to say, to be honest.Don't quite know what to say, to be honest.Just Wendy https://www.blogger.com/profile/05268645629027109282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-27786517599116448602013-06-06T11:58:41.488-07:002013-06-06T11:58:41.488-07:00I'm at a loss too, Michael.I'm at a loss too, Michael. loverofwordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05763349886822924646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-85169603497314038132013-06-06T11:19:41.667-07:002013-06-06T11:19:41.667-07:00I'm at a loss for words. Thanks for posting th...I'm at a loss for words. Thanks for posting the comic strip.Michael Offutt, Phantom Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557969104886174930noreply@blogger.com