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  • Eddie
    Senior Member
    • Apr 2009
    • 8098
    #16
    I've got nothing to add, except that I'm jealous.

    Always been a history buff. I read every WWII book I could get my hands on in Jr. High and High school. I hope to visit Normandy some day. No plans as yet - but it is on my bucket list.

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      • happyone
        Board Bookworm
        • Mar 2009
        • 5394
        #17
        Originally posted by Eddie View Post
        I've got nothing to add, except that I'm jealous.

        Always been a history buff. I read every WWII book I could get my hands on in Jr. High and High school. I hope to visit Normandy some day. No plans as yet - but it is on my bucket list.
        You really need to make the trip. It is one of the most memorable of my life - along with my trip to Gettysburg (also with my brothers)

        I may be small, but I'm slow.

        A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to, "The United States of America ", for an amount of "up to and including my life - it's an honor."

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          • Moliere
            One man.....one pie
            • Oct 2009
            • 27822
            #18
            Doesn’t matter how many times I visit the American cemetery in Normandy, just above Omaha Beach, but it always gets me choked up.
            "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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              • wuapinmon
                Soul Plumber
                • Dec 2008
                • 30711
                #19
                Originally posted by Moliere View Post
                Doesn’t matter how many times I visit the American cemetery in Normandy, just above Omaha Beach, but it always gets me choked up.
                It's been 30 years since I was last there, but it's burned into my memory. All that green and white.
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                  • Bo Diddley
                    Senior
                    • Jul 2012
                    • 18743
                    #20
                    That's still something I haven't seen. I need to move that up on my bucket list.

                    Last night Bo Jr had a concert in the grassy area on the north side of the University Mall. He's in the American Fork Symphony. One of the last numbers was Hymn To The Fallen. The conductor said he took a high school group to Normandy on the 60th Anniversary of D-Day and played that number. My thoughts turned to my friend SFC James Thode.

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                      • Jeff Lebowski
                        Corporate lackey for Jesus
                        • Nov 2008
                        • 69561
                        #21
                        Originally posted by Moliere View Post
                        Doesn’t matter how many times I visit the American cemetery in Normandy, just above Omaha Beach, but it always gets me choked up.
                        Agreed.

                        We walked down to the beach and stood there for a while. Thought about all the blood that once soaked through the sand. All those young kids.
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                          • PaloAltoCougar
                            Semper infra dignitatem
                            • Nov 2008
                            • 16921
                            #22
                            On our last visit to Normandy several years ago, we took a photo of our youngest son, a recently graduated high school senior, stand next to the headstone of a soldier his age. We talked briefly how his parents must have felt when they received the tragic news. We've said that the American Cemetery at Normandy is the most spiritual place we've ever visited, with the possible exception of a temple.

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