Edited by Crone, 26 September 2006 - 05:17 PM.

Normandy
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Posted 23 September 2006 - 10:41 PM
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Posted 25 September 2006 - 09:44 PM

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Posted 27 September 2006 - 09:04 AM
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Posted 07 August 2007 - 03:12 PM
Richard
Edited by Richard Kimmel, 07 August 2007 - 03:13 PM.
Published Author and Paranormal Archaeologist
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Posted 09 August 2007 - 12:43 PM
I have interesting artifact, with a Paranormal connection, from the Normandy Invasion on my website. Click below "Visit My Website".
Richard
I have never been to Normandy but as have a huge interest in WWII I just have to go soon!.
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Posted 09 August 2007 - 01:19 PM
I absolutely loved going to Normandy, I have been there three times over the years, I also attended the 60th Anniversary.
What interests me is not only the beaches, but the inlaying villages, as some of them still have bullet holes in the walls, and bomb damage, absolutely fascinating !
There are also many many cemetries dedicated and have men buried there from all countries. I must say the American one was the most impressive, although sad, and you just cant feel not humbled by the whole experience.
Both my Grandfathers served in the British Army and both were involved in the D-Day landings on Sword Beach.
Id recommend it to anyone !
Mark

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Posted 14 August 2007 - 07:42 AM
I am proud to have served my country! I recall watching Saving Private Ryan in a theater full of soldiers when it came out. Not one dry eye left that night. I would love to one day walk along the same sand at Normandy that my fellow countrymen did many decades ago. I hope to feel there spirits, even their pain, for the price that they paid in blood afforded us all a life of freedom.
To that extent, I salute them! Heroes through all time!
Edited by rayzrwyre, 14 August 2007 - 07:45 AM.
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Posted 16 August 2007 - 10:39 AM
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Posted 16 August 2007 - 08:02 PM
After arriving there that evening, we made arrangement to sleep outside that night there in that farm orchard. Later on after it was dark, we held a memorial service at midnight, in the dark, complete with the playing of taps and one of our chaplains telling us that 40 years ago at that moment, there were American Paratroopers who were quietly descending down where we were standing to start the fight to kick the Germans out of France and end the war. Nothing really mysterious happened at that instance, but in the dark there that night, you couldn't help but feel that you weren't alone, like the ghosts of old paratroopers were there with you in the night.
For anyone interested, I recommend a reading of SLA Marshall's Night Drop: The American Airborne Invasion of Normandy for a history of that area and the paratroopers who fought there. We were actually required to buy a copy and read it before we flew over and jumped into there. We ended up visiting just about every battlefield or historical site mentioned in that book.
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Posted 19 August 2007 - 09:40 AM
In 1984, I was serving with the 82nd Abn Div out of Ft. Bragg and had the opportunity to participate in the 40th D-Day Anniversary which involved a Task Force from our Division jumping first into the UK and linking with the British Parachute Regiment and with some of them joining us, turning around and jumping onto our old combat drop zones around St. Mere Eglise which was the first town liberated by the Allies on the European mainland during WW2. This was the first time a unit from the 82nd had returned to Normandy and on 5 June, 1984, we jumped into a drop zone by parachute that was just a few miles east of St. Mere Eglise, between the town and the Utah landing beaches and we were then bussed over to a location which was known as "Timme's Orchards" where a regimental commander of the 507th Parachute Regiment had started his fight out of after landing there. For anyone familiar with the geography of that area, this was just across from the River Dives, west of the La Fiere bridge/causeway and west of St. Mere Eglise.
After arriving there that evening, we made arrangement to sleep outside that night there in that farm orchard. Later on after it was dark, we held a memorial service at midnight, in the dark, complete with the playing of taps and one of our chaplains telling us that 40 years ago at that moment, there were American Paratroopers who were quietly descending down where we were standing to start the fight to kick the Germans out of France and end the war. Nothing really mysterious happened at that instance, but in the dark there that night, you couldn't help but feel that you weren't alone, like the ghosts of old paratroopers were there with you in the night.
For anyone interested, I recommend a reading of SLA Marshall's Night Drop: The American Airborne Invasion of Normandy for a history of that area and the paratroopers who fought there. We were actually required to buy a copy and read it before we flew over and jumped into there. We ended up visiting just about every battlefield or historical site mentioned in that book.
all i can say is WOW! what an experience. shakes your hand to say "thank you for serving." i say that to all of our vets.
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Posted 19 August 2007 - 09:45 AM
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