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Sixty-Eight Years Later . . .

Thought I'd drudge up some memories for today . . .

This was a photo taken exactly 5 years ago at Juno Beach in Courseulles-Sur-Mer in Normandy. The gentleman in the photo with me was there to remember the time he had come to that beach exactly 63 years prior.

It was a very windy day, and several chairs set up for the D-Day ceremony had blown completely over. Thinking it would make for a good moment of wit, I asked this gentleman (who happened to be nearby as we all noted the chairs), "So how would you say the wind today compares to sixty-three years ago?"

Classic British response: "Well to be perfectly honest I wasn't thinking about the wind at the time."

He was a British engineer who landed at Juno Beach with the Canadians during the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944. I never asked him his name, but I'll remember him all the same.

It's a good day for remembering, I suppose.

Life: 06/06/12 | By: SomeGuy | 3 comments | Tags: d-day, Juno Beach, remembrance