9,000 Fallen Soldiers etched into the sand on Normandy Beach to Commemorate Peace Day. View attachment 397811
Time has gone by and now a large percentage of our country doesn't know of or care about Normandy.
This year, British artist Jamie, accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand
Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of those who died or were casualties during the D-Day beach landings at Normandy on June 6th, 1944, during WWII.
The original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but as word spread nearly 500 additional local residents arrived to help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours before being washed away by the tide.
What is surprising is that nothing about this was seen here in the U.S..
Someone from overseas had a friend that sent it with a note of gratitude for what the U.S. started
there.
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What an incredible job they did.
That was a massive undertaking. Now, if it had only been publicized here as it should have been. Most of the young people of today needed to see this. They have no concept of the extreme sacrifices made that give them the freedom to make such idiots of themselves.