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David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Sheep are used to crop the grass as it is too dangerous for humans to do it.
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > But that was five days ago. Now I am standing in the La Cambe Cemetery, surrounded by the graves of Nazi soldiers, the ashes of hate, lying cold and dead under my feet. Eight months ago I was in Israel, visiting Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial, watching a group of young Israeli conscripts on their mandatory tour. A young female soldier was standing in front of a huge photograph of a Nazi soldier executing a mother and her child. I saw her put her hand on her Uzi machine gun -how white her knuckles became. Would she go out and be prepared for the threat of evil or would she be infected by it? What about me? I have hated, hated deeply -the school bullies that were so much a part of my childhood, the right wing politicians whose actions, I as a Union activist, passionately believed were unjust, even evil. Looking at that red rose on the black cross, my gut reaction said hate. Hate those I thought were "them" and not "us." But in that moment I recognized that the only difference between "me" and "them" was that their hate had already consumed them. The closing words of the poet Wilfred Owen's wrenching description of a soldier drowning in a sea of poison gas came to mind. He sarcastically quoted the Greek poet Horace, extolling the glories of war, "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" (It is sweet and proper to die for one's country.) War, in the defence of freedom may be necessary at times but there is nothing sweet or glorious about it. And worse, without reconciliation we are doomed to reproduce the very evil we fought.
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Finally there was Omaha Beach the place of the most savage fighting of D-Day and above it the huge American cemetery with over 9000 American dead. Row, upon row, upon row, of white crosses including General Theodore Rosevelt Jr. who died because he insisted on landing with his men on D-Day. The narrative is continued below. View Map
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Canadian Cemetery at Juno
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Batterie du Longues
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Over the next few days, I visited the other invasion beaches. At Arromanches the skeletal remains of the artificial "Mulberry Harbour"* , still surrounds the bay. *An artificial harbour made by sinking giant hollow concrete "caissons" and surplus ships. used to make up for the lack of natural harbours in Normandy
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > La Maison du Queen's Own Rifles One of the houses that survived the invasion. You will often see this house in footage of old WW2 film of the landings of D-Day. There it is seen just as the Landing Crafts front door open and machine gun fire cuts down a number of men.
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Juno Beach stretched from Ver-sur-Mer to Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer . In the middle approximately half way was Berniers sur Mer where I had stopped. It is here that I stood at the sea's edge, looking towards the land, trying to imagine what it was like for the soldiers that day. This was their view as they rushed towards the sea wall, the artillery and the machine guns of the Germans.
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Cape Gris
Over the next few days, I visited the other invasion beaches. At Arromanches the skeletal remains of the artificial "Mulberry Harbour"* , still surrounds the bay.

*An artificial harbour made by sinking giant hollow concrete "caissons" and surplus ships. used to make up for the lack of natural harbours in Normandy
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Over the next few days, I visited the other invasion beaches. At Arromanches the skeletal remains of the artificial "Mulberry Harbour"* , still surrounds the bay. *An artificial harbour made by sinking giant hollow concrete "caissons" and surplus ships. used to make up for the lack of natural harbours in Normandy
Over the next few days, I visited the other invasion beaches. At Arromanches the skeletal remains of the artificial "Mulberry Harbour"* , still surrounds the bay.

*An artificial harbour made by sinking giant hollow concrete "caissons" and surplus ships. used to make up for the lack of natural harbours in Normandy
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