Tag: soldiers

• Arriving, Departing or Just Passing Through

  I stood hard against the tiled wall and made room for the rush of human traffic trying to pass me.  I was thinking about insanity and the blindness of powerful people to hold sacred something that once had beauty and class. Beauty and class are rare commodities these days. I was in the bowels of…

  patrickjegan

  March 16, 2015

  Blogging, Food, History, Holding onto the Past, Love, Memories, New York City, non-fiction, Real Personal History, Travels, Uncategorized, Writing About Rails

  34th St., changing times in train stations, NYC, Penn Station, soldiers, WWII

• 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