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Omaha Beach
When we stood on the sands of Omaha Beach at Colleville-sur-Mer, it is hard to grasp the sheer scale of what occurred here on June 6, 1944. The shoreline is now peaceful, but on D-Day it was one of the most violent and deadly battlegrounds in modern history. In the early hours of that morning, […]
Normandy Cliffs and American Cemetery
There are few places more memorable to me than our visit to Normandy. No movie, photograph or history book could prepare us for the vastness of this coastline or the weight it still carries. It is impossible not to feel the immensity of what happened across these beaches on June 6, 1944. We started at […]
