Tag: GI’s

• 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…

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  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