May 2nd

8:15 AM May 3rd

SUNDAYS MAY 2nd JOURNAL

Normandy- Juno beach highlights

It was time to leave the breath taking city of Paris and head off to Normandy. The bus ride was about three and a half hours, which wasn’t so bad because we got to watch Saving Private Ryan. We headed for Juno beach where the Canadians landed on D-Day. We first saw the museum, this is how it came to be, sometime around the 1980’s two veterans had come back to juno beach to see the area and noticed there was no memorial sites and so they made the Juno Beach Center.





To the beach we went, it was a very strong part in our day, for me anyway. We were standing where thousands of Canadians had jumped off the boats and charged their enemies. We standing on sand and rock that had once been covered with blood and the gore of war. We gathered around in a semicircle and had our wreath in front of us. We talked about different things on the war had a couple readings and a two minute of silence. It was very powerful. I grabbed a rock that I plan on keeping for a long long time.







The next thing was also to be very powerful, we were going to see one of the Canadian cemeteries for fallen soldiers. I walked up and down reading the names and the age of each soldier. I don’t know how to describe how I felt, it was something I had not felt before. Thinking about all the soldiers and the huge sacrifice, thinking what was running through their heads on their last days alive was something really powerful.




We gathered at the center of the cemetery and recited Flanders Field then we had five minutes before going back onto the bus. I went off to put my poppy cross on a grave.
We drove to dinner and then drove back to our hotels. A good day indeed