Excellent history lesson
A large percentage of our country’s population doesn’t know of or care about Normandy. My guess is it has been removed from the text in current history books.
A few weekends ago, British artist Jamie, accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing our fallen soldiers into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000<http://thefallen9000.info/> , the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of those who died during the D-Day beach landings at Arromanches on June 6th, 1944 during WWII. The original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but as word spread nearly 500 additional local residents arrived to help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours before being washed away by the tide. You won’t see or read anything of this on our media….wonder why? The local French know and came out to help. June 6th ‘44 was truly and event that changed the world.
9,000 Fallen Soldiers Etched into the Sand on Normandy Beach to Commemorate Peace Day on September 25, 2013
What is surprising is that there was nothing about this here in the US. An person from overseas sent it to a friend of mine with a note of gratitude for what the US started there.
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