[jazzeum]

Thank you for that link. Looking at that link I could see that he and I had been to a lot of the same places and had taken a lot of the same pictures. It brought back some memories. When we were in Normandy, we stayed at a B and B in Villers Bocage, which was very nice. Every day, we'd travel up to Bayeaux and then goes in this direction or that direction.

On the first full day we were there, we stopped at the British cemetery in Tilly Sur Seulles not by design but because it was on the way to Bayeaux. It was an amazing moving experience. This cemetery wasn't that large and there was a little arch where people had signed the book. Reading the remembrances brought tears to my eyes. There was one inscription from a British man "to the father I never knew." A few days later we stopped at another British cemetery, the smallest cemetery in Normandy, 47 soldiers, one a Czech. It was a rainy day but again equally moving.

I don't think you can fully appreciate the sacrifice these soldiers made until you've been to Normandy. I'm not saying you can't. I just found being there made all the difference.