D-Day
II went back out to Juno beach today for the commemorative ceremonies today and they were amazing. It was raining and ugly out until about 2 hours before the ceremony, and by the time we began it turned out to be a beautiful day.
One surprising part of the ceremony was how few veterans there were present. Only 3 or 4 veterans from Canada and maybe 10 veterans from France were in attendance. Now I know that it is a long way to come just for a ceremony, but I would have thought that more would be here. Still, though we honor them, the important part is that the current generation remembers the sacrifice they made, and in terms of that this ceremony was a huge success, with maybe 200 or more “young people” in attendance.
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