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I thought you people would find this tribute pretty interesting

 

To mark Peace Day on September 21 2013, Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss, two artists from Bradford, England, set out with hundreds of volunteers to commemorate the 9000 civilians, Allies and German forces lost on D-Day, June 6 1944.

The Fallen project took place at Arromanches, a French tourist town that lies along the stretch of coastline designated as Gold Beach during the D-Day landings.

Over a period of five hours, volunteers used rakes and stencils to etch 9000 figures into the sand. The results were immortalized through photography with the etched figures washed away by the tide later that day.

 

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/09/volunteers-etch-figures-into-normandy-beach-dday-memorial/

 

http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/fallen-soldiers-etched-into-sand-normandy-beach-peace-day-land-art-project-13.jpg

 

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http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/fallen-soldiers-etched-into-sand-normandy-beach-peace-day-land-art-project-8.jpg

 

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Not sure if you've ever been there Trish, but the actual Normandy American Cemetery is an incredible place to visit. It's a small reminder of the cost of war, with almost 10k buried and a wall commemorating 1,500 missing. As you walk around the beach nearby, there are still many pillboxes and craters from bombs dropped in the area. One of those things that every American needs to experience. I've been to the sites of many Civil War battles and nothing compares.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_American_Cemetery_and_Memorial

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Not sure if you've ever been there Trish, but the actual Normandy American Cemetery is an incredible place to visit. It's a small reminder of the cost of war, with almost 10k buried and a wall commemorating 1,500 missing. As you walk around the beach nearby, there are still many pillboxes and craters from bombs dropped in the area. One of those things that every American needs to experience. I've been to the sites of many Civil War battles and nothing compares.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_American_Cemetery_and_Memorial

 

One day.... One day..

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The first mission on Medal of Honor (PS2 days) has you storming the beach alone with like four other dudes (and the occasional scripted guy running up into an explosion) because evidently it couldn't process more than that. I know that's not exactly what we're talking about here, but it came to mind.
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The opening to Saving Private Ryan is probably the most gripping opening to any movie I've ever seen. I know that's not exactly what we're talking about here, but it came to mind.

 

I both love and hate it. Mostly because after SPR won all those Oscars everyone decided "HOLY SHIT MY MOVIE NEEDS 500 TIMES MORE SHAKY CAMERA IF WE'RE GONNA WIN ANY AWARDS"

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Not sure if you've ever been there Trish, but the actual Normandy American Cemetery is an incredible place to visit. It's a small reminder of the cost of war, with almost 10k buried and a wall commemorating 1,500 missing. As you walk around the beach nearby, there are still many pillboxes and craters from bombs dropped in the area. One of those things that every American needs to experience. I've been to the sites of many Civil War battles and nothing compares.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_American_Cemetery_and_Memorial

 

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/02/3aga6uhy.jpg

My great uncle above, I went there to get pics and lay flowers at the grave. Nobody in my family has been to his grave until I went in 2006. I brought back pics to my grandmother (her brother) before her Parkinson's got bad so she could see his grave before she passed.

 

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/02/abe6ybaz.jpg

Place is beautiful. So many graves. That part of France was awesome.

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Saving Private Ryan was 1998, Blair Witch Project was 1999.

 

Unless that was the point, and it was lost on me.

 

Yeah, that was the point - I probably should have been clearer. When you said shaky camera, BWP came to mind immediately. I thought it came after SPR, but wasn't sure.

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http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/02/3aga6uhy.jpg

My great uncle above, I went there to get pics and lay flowers at the grave. Nobody in my family has been to his grave until I went in 2006. I brought back pics to my grandmother (her brother) before her Parkinson's got bad so she could see his grave before she passed.

 

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/02/abe6ybaz.jpg

Place is beautiful. So many graves. That part of France was awesome.

 

Sends a chill down my spine.

 

Where did you stay up there? I was in a little town called Honfleur and it was amazing. Best moules frites I've ever eaten.

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My first battalion I served in was the 299th Engineer Battalion. Our motto was "First on Omaha". Pretty cool to have served in the same battalion that opened the beaches of Omaha up. Our battalion sustained upwards of 40%. That's where the average life expectancy of a combat engineer during a combat breach was 16 seconds. I have nothing but the utmost respect for all those who executed the operation. There's a reason they're the Greatest Generation.
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My first battalion I served in was the 299th Engineer Battalion. Our motto was "First on Omaha". Pretty cool to have served in the same battalion that opened the beaches of Omaha up. Our battalion sustained upwards of 40%. That's where the average life expectancy of a combat engineer during a combat breach was 16 seconds. I have nothing but the utmost respect for all those who executed the operation. There's a reason they're the Greatest Generation.

 

I feel like that'd be a hard pitch to get someone to join now, instead of back then when you had no choice.

 

"Hey you can be in this battalion, you might not make it more than 15 seconds when shit hits the fan but hey, you can still join."

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I feel like that'd be a hard pitch to get someone to join now, instead of back then when you had no choice.

 

"Hey you can be in this battalion, you might not make it more than 15 seconds when shit hits the fan but hey, you can still join."

 

That's why we're so much more willing to go to war now. People would get out and protest if everyone were eligible to be drafted.

 

I say bring back the draft.

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