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Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts) Thu Jun 5, 2014, 05:59 AM Jun 2014

9000 bodies etched into the Normandy sand:

@HistoricalPics:
9000 bodies etched into the Normandy sand representing the dead on 1st day landings
#DDay70 via @davesleney

My Daddy landed on D-Day+6 with his artillery unit.

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9000 bodies etched into the Normandy sand: (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Jun 2014 OP

Wow mucifer Jun 2014 #1

Photos at link; SamKnause Jun 2014 #2

my father was there too Duppers Jun 2014 #3

Wonderful that 500 local residents volunteered when they learned about it. pampango Jun 2014 #4

mucifer

(23,533 posts)

1. Wow

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Thu Jun 5, 2014, 06:41 AM

Jun 2014

I am grateful to your father for what he did.

A little FYI if you want to hear what the folks back in the USA heard on the radio that day:

https://archive.org/details/CBD440606CBSDDayCBS

https://archive.org/details/NBCCompleteBroadcastDDay

SamKnause

(13,091 posts)

2. Photos at link;

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Thu Jun 5, 2014, 07:43 AM

Jun 2014

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/09/the-fallen-9000/

Duppers

(28,120 posts)

3. my father was there too

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Thu Jun 5, 2014, 09:24 AM

Jun 2014

He said fighting in the Hedgerows was extremely dangerous too. He managed to commandeer a German truck in the Hedgerows fighting. He didn't give details or talk much about it. Came back to the States and immediately married my clueless mother. I visited the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va with her a few years ago and she said she had no idea how dangerous it was! Too many Americans are clueless about everything.

pampango

(24,692 posts)

4. Wonderful that 500 local residents volunteered when they learned about it.

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Thu Jun 5, 2014, 09:55 AM

Jun 2014

It is particular poignant that all of this beautiful work was temporary destined to be swept away by the tide. That is just like the men who were there in 1944. They either lived there briefly and died on the beach or lived and left the beach to move on into France.

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