Twenty years ago today, I was lucky to see the 49th anniversary of D-Day ceremonies at Pointe De Hoc and Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. Today is the 69th anniversary of this historic landings. This event would change the world and proved the beginning of the end to the NAZI empire thanks to the already enormous sacrifices taken on by the Soviet Union.
I have not been back for twenty years to Normandy, but I think about it often and my month stay studying World War II. I know after twenty years a lot has changed, but I am certain that Normandy is still an amazing part of France due to these five factors.
5. The Scenery
Normandy is full of beautiful small towns once ablaze with clashing armies with buildings in rubble and dead cows lying everywhere. Scenes of chaos are long gone and the streets now wind their way through towns that look just like they did 69 years ago and one day ago before the roar of war came through.
