We went camping in Normandy a couple of years ago (and I remembered the tentpoles Pony!).

We went to Omaha beach and the cemetary there.

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm134/stretchermonkey_2008/P1010007.jpg

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm134/stretchermonkey_2008/P1010013.jpg

The British cemetary at Bayeaux.
http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm134/stretchermonkey_2008/P1010032.jpg

St Mer Eglise

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm134/stretchermonkey_2008/P1010045.jpg

It is quite chilling to see the number of headstones and the ages on those headstones.

Otherwise apart from the British American and Canadian soldiers who died there there are quite a lot of other graves from other countries too. Even German soldiers are buried at Bayeaux.

I always say that kids nowadays should be taken to war cemetaries just to show them what sacrifices have been made (and are currently being made) for them.

Before the war on terror, if I saw an unattended package I used to think "I'll be having that!"