Lest We Forget- reflections on Normandy Beaches

It was an early start as a small group of Britts, Canadians and Aussies seperated from most of the American travellers and headed off ,under the usual overcast sky's, on our day tour of the Normandy D- day beaches with a Commonwealth flavour.
With a comfort stop along the way we again bumped into my namesake "pasterie"..oh its so hard to be famous.

A stop to Bayeux to visit the famous tapestry which depicted the Norman conquest of Enland in 1066... Interesting but only an appetiser.

Then to Normandy beaches of "Gold"  and "Juno" and the excellent Canadian museum at  really took us back to 6th June 1944.

It was the war cementaries at  Courseulles-sur-Mer and Ranville brought home the real impact and sacrifice of war...seen in the row after row of headstones of so many young men whose epitah told the story

God grant the cause for which they died shall not fail through me

What greater gift could a son give? His life for others in freedom to live

the ultimate dream ....and for them , reality........"peace , perfect peace"