My coolest moment of our recent trip to Paris and the Normandy region of France is pictured above. By chance, we arrived at the American Cemetary above Omaha Beach just before it opened and wandered over to check out the group of people preparing to raise the flags. A man asked if there were any other Veterans in the crowd, and James immeadiately grabbed the backpack from me and said ,"Go." So I walked up to the front and got a surprised look when I said I was ex-Air Force :) (Still love that.)
I had the honor of saluting while a WWII Veteran raised the colors for the day (that's me in the green jacket on the right). Incidentally, it was the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend, which made it extra cool. I teared up walking through the crosses and Jewish stars on the graves just after the ceremony... pondering the loss and senselessness of war. A moving morning to be sure.
No comments:
Post a Comment