Exploring Normandy is truly an experience to remember. My
husband and I visited this beautiful and peaceful land in early September. Driving
through the hills of Normandy feels like taking a big step back in time: lovely
villages and fields create pastoral landscapes that make you feel going way
back into time of Alexandre Dumas and his novels.
The Normandy beaches (Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword)
are where the allied forces led the large scale invasion of France on D-Day -
June 6, 1944. As a Russian-American I was unprepared for the enormity of the American
side of the experience, and this visit gave me a whole new perspective on a
period in history that was hardly touched in my school history books. Seeing
windswept beaches with their open areas for an attack as well as the height of
the cliffs game me a greater appreciation of why so many Americans and allied
troops were lost that day in Normandy.
The Normandy American Cemetery was breath taking.
Низкий поклон всем погибшим.
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