The National D-Day Memorial, which honors all of those who stormed ashore in Normandy on June 6, 1944, regardless of nationality, is an amazingly well done, and quite sobering memorial. It is a fitting tribute to those who fought there, beginning the end of the evils of Nazism.
I had seen pictures of this area, depicting the landings themselves. It has representations of a Higgins landing craft, hedgehog beach obstacles, men in various poses of battle: charging ashore, scaling a wall, some dying on the beach.
What I did not expect was small fountains that erupted in the water with a small explosive sound, invoking the gunfire that the soldiers faced.
@ggshearron Bedford, Virginia. Beautiful area of the foothills of the Appalachians, halfway between Lynchburg and Roanoke. I put the Memorial's website link at the bottom of the text.
