On 2014-07-25 8:17 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 7/24/2014 8:43 PM, Kalmia wrote:
>
> > As an aside, I was privileged to sing at a series of D-Day
> >Commemorative concerts. At the American cemetery at Omaha Beach, we
> >sang our planned anthem with hardly a dry eye, BUT when we gazed at
> >our flag raised aloft, we broke into our national anthem. We barely
> >got the last 'home of the brave' out, we were so overcome with the
> >enormity of the sacrifice. I felt I really WAS at the resting place of
> >those so young and brave. I hope this doesn't initiate another
> >anti->Allies diatribe, but let me tell you, I never before have felt
> >so proud to be an American.
>
> Last night I saw a show that wound up going to a cemetery where
> Americans slain in battle were buried, in France. It looked like snow,
> white crosses as far as the eye could see. What a sacrifice. All
> those men ran into battle even though they were being fired on
> from both sides and hardly had a chance. So brave.

When we visited the American cemetery of the Meuse Argonne we were
really impressed. The crosses are all white and everything is so
immaculately maintained. As you drive along past all those rows of
crosses it is quite mesmerizing.

This cemetery is about 25 miles from Verdun, which saw some of the worst
fighting of that war. I was amazed at what I thought was a regular war
cemetery with 130,000 markers. It turned to be an ossuary for the
remains of the unidentified war dead. There were a lot more war
cemeteries in the area.





http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-memor...rican-cemetery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse-A...y_and_Memorial