I found the badge on a fleamarket a few weeks later... I couldn't pass it up.I also remember an old man, obviously well aged but still in relatively good shape...Standing at the side of the Promenade in Aromanches dressed in a WW2 uniform and some medals ...Smiling from ear to ear while watching families walk on by...I still regret not shaking his hand and thanking him for his service. But the image is burned in my mind...The US graveyard is... Undescribable.But let's not forget the German one either. It's massive too, and most of them were husbands, sons, fathers and brothers too, made to choose between fighting a war that wasn't theirs, or to die in a work camp.I can not respect their side of the battle, but their deaths touch me none the less.
I’d sooo like to just sit down with our neighbor and talk with him, he’s pushing 89 I think, and I think he’d want to talk because every time we’ve gone over and sat with him he’s got military books in his living room, heck he’s even got a pair of these huge old school navel binoculars sitting in his living room window, but I don’t want to push the subject,JR
That's not an easy decision, you want to hear his stories and maybe he is waiting for someone to tell them to, but on the other hand, who knows which "old wounds" get opened up again ...
It’s just a total idk, but I also want to make him a hanky out of respect, and since he goes to breakfast once a month with a few of his vet buddies, I’d like to make a few so he could hand them out, this is the design I was thinking of, JR
Awesome badge!
+1!JR
Is this it ?