Hey Readers,

I know that this is a late entry, however the hotel we were staying in, located in the medieval town of Bayeux, France, did not have internet. I will therefore do my best to describe our eventfull week. We first arrived in France on Monday morning. The rain and sleet, which had caused so much flooding in New York and New Jersey and that had caused the trip delay until monday, differed remarkably from the mild, sunny days we have had in Normandy. We first visited Point Du Hoc, where the Rangers climbed a sheer cliff to storm a battery complex that threatened the beaches below. Point Du Hoc was remarcable in that one could still see the craters made by the heavy preliminary bombardment before the invasion.

The concrete bunkers built by the Germans to form the Atlantic Wall remain intact in many locations. We easily entered many of the bunkers and snapped photos of the gun emplacements, the damage caused by shell holes and also the general layout of the bunkers not only at Point Du Hoc, but also at Omaha, Utah and Gold beach. We also visited locations behind the landing zones such as the cemetaries of the major participating nations, airborne landing zones and small combat locations, and also the Mullberry harbors, which were made on the beaches in order to supply the landings.

My next entry will describe how it felt standing on the beaches, and also the strong emotions one feels when entering the American Cemetary, perched on the cliffs located above Fox red and Fox green of Omaha beach.

below ive added a video taken during our drive from the Paris Charles De Gaule Airport to Bayeuz and my initial reaction to the countryside of a foreign country.  ***Disclaimer***  None of us had recieved much sleep on the airplane, hense the intensley tired eyes.