Fairly typical scenery in Normandy (Wikimedia CC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
A poem appears in two languages on the wall of the World War Two museum in Arromanche. \u00a0The last verse reads as follows:<\/p>\n
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Voir ces enfants qui rient<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nEn jouant dans la mer.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nLe soleil d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nS\u00e8che les larmes d\u2019hier.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
And, in English,<\/p>\n
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See the children laughing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nAnd playing in the sea.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nToday\u2019s sun<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nDries yesterday\u2019s tears.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s one of the striking things about Normandy. \u00a0Today, the sites of battles are so beautifully green and quiet, so serene, that it\u2019s difficult to believe that, still within living memory, they were pounded by artillery, cratered by bombs, and soaked with blood. \u00a0Omaha Beach, where an American commander told his beleaguered men on 6 June 1944 that there were only two kinds of people on it, the dead and those who would soon be dead, and advised them that, if they were going to die, they might as well die trying to get up onto the bluffs, is now a popular summer resort, crowded with sunbathers and swimmers. \u00a0At first, that fact seems almost sacrilegious. \u00a0But then, on reflection, it seems entirely appropriate that people freely enjoy their lives on a beach where thousands of men died so that they could do precisely that.<\/p>\n
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Posted from Carentan, Normandy, France<\/p>\n
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