Let's Remember

Let's remember why we celebrate Memorial Day....to honor the memory of all the soldiers who paid the ultimate price for our country and our freedom - their lives. There have been so many brave men and women who have died in various wars. Being a child of the "Greatest Generation" and having visited a war site, I wanted to share a few pictures in France where American blood spilled on French soil.
This is the American Cemetary near Omaha Beach, where so many Americans died the first day or two just trying to land on and secure this beachhead. It is a daunting place. There are signs of "Silence", and on one visit I overheard a French elementary school student chiding a fellow classman, "Be quiet, these men died for France."

If you could look closely on this wall, you would see the names of missing American soldiers, presumed dead. Again, this is just a part of the wall......very humbling.
My daughter and I had the luxury of sitting peacefully on Omaha beach in Normandy, France, under a brilliant blue sky and with waves lapping the shore - the same place where a huge invasion unlike anything the world had ever seen took place in 1944....where some young Americans fought and died, while others moved inland.

What a different place Europe, and maybe even the whole world, might have been had not so many men (and women) been willing to fight and even die for freedom. This is just one war....there have been so many.....and we still have war.....and there will be wars. We honor the fallen by remembering their ultimate sacrifice. We are so thankful for our fallen heroes....I know you probably have some in your family lineage. Fly your flags! Linda