And now, for something completely different (thank you Monty Python).
(this was still in my Drafts folder so I’m re-posting it as I’m unsure what is happening. Another mix-up with Blocks?)
Commissioned by the French government on the 60th Anniversary of WWll and erected in 2004 as a monument to the Americans who helped liberate France, this moving sculpture stands at the centre of Omaha Beach.
The beach today is an place of calm and tranquillity but 76 years ago it was an inferno of noise, smoke and slaughter. Here, along a five-mile stretch of shoreline, the men of the American 1st and 29th Divisions, caught off-guard as they had not expected to meet such opposition, battled their way through fierce German defences.
Thousands of Allied troops were killed in the D-Day battle of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, but it was perhaps the single greatest turning point of World War II.t.
MARI'S TRAVELS WITH HER CAMERA 
I hope it is!
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I like it. I assume it is more secure than it looks and not in danger of being washed away by the sea.
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Its a beautiful piece…..
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Thank you, I think so too.
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But you have to admit it is striking and can’t be missed!
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The beach landings were a traumatising event in our history and our debt to those who took part and eventually won through against terrible odds can never be adequately repaid. It is right that we erect a monument to stand as a reminder for all time.
As for the sculpture itself, I will discreetly refrain from expressing my opinion..
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