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D-Day
by joon
Tomorrow will be the 60th anniversary of the landing in Normandy by some 150 000 allied soldiers.
Canadians, australians, english and american soldiers landed on several beaches by sea and others by air.
When you grew up in Normandy, you go with school to visit the big memorial in Caen and often when you go on the beaches with your family, you can still see some bunkers. In Arromanches and other places, the floating ports are still visible on the sea.
6 june 1944 ... terrible day but the beginning of the end of the war.
This year a lot of people came to see the giantic american, english, canadian, etc ... cemetaries you can find all over the north of france.
When I talked about this time with my grand father, he remembers the american soldier with their "sumsumgum", he is not very good at english... "sumsumgum" was chewing gum. It was new like black soldiers!
I don't know how to say that, most of them died ... but thank you guys!
