Remembering D-Day

To commemorate the 66th Anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, a group of re-enactors met at 1940’s Swansea Bay and held a small service before they trained in memory of  the men who perished on 6th June 1944.

The service involved all the re-enactors forming up on parade for a minute’s silence, and then a poetry reading. It was very moving and the silence focussed everyone’s attention on the men who wore the uniforms for real and slogged up beaches or leapt out of aircraft on D-Day.

Re-enactors remember D-Day

It was just a small service attened by a few family members and visitors to the museum, but such pauses are important on days like 6/6/44. In an age where there is seemingly a silence for everything, we should all try and pause for just a moment in  our busy lives and think those who fell for our country in past and present wars, whether on the anniversary of a battle or merely when visiting a memorial wherever it may be. Lest we forget

Cambes-en-Plaine CWGC Cemetery, Normandy

-JK