Tag: D-Day

• Passports 3: Passing Through the Fields of Death

  We left Paris on a crisp bright May morning.  This was the only day-long excursion we booked in advance.  We were going to visit Mont St. Michele in Brittany.  The trip would take us four hours one way, in a northwest direction to this 850 year old Abbey mountain. Our route took us through the…

  patrickjegan

  May 16, 2014

  History, Holding onto the Past, Travels

  70 years after d-day, blood of war, D-Day, death, GI’s, lonely death, memorial day, Normandy, Paris, soldiers, war

• Alternate Endings II

  Sometimes life is like a box of chocolates, You just never know what you’re gonna get. –Forrest Gump ACT 1–Mary arrived in Chicago and settled in with her sister, Gladys.  Gladys had never married but she was often in the company of a girlfriend, Monica.  Very few men were present in the world of Gladys.  This…

  patrickjegan

  September 13, 2013

  Alternate Endings, Uncategorized

  Arlington Cemetery, D-Day, death of spouse, departures, divorce, train stations, war medals