Friday night and Saturday

92 year old Andre related his stories from WWII. He was a member of the French Resistance.

On Saturday, we visited several beaches along the Normandy coast. This is Longues Battery. After D-Day, the guns in this area were left. The locals wanted them to be reminders.

It's amazing what good shape these bunkers are still in!

This is part of a prefab floating harbor, made in England, that was towed over to the area called Gold Beach.

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I'm in a shop in the town of Arromanches, at Gold Beach, writing post cards.

We visited the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. There are 9,387 Americans buried here.

 We participated in a ceremony which concluded with an honor to those veterans traveling with us,

Our tour director brought roses for us to put on graves. I walked through the graves until I found someone from Louisiana. His name is Lawrence Payton.

This is a memorial on Omaha Beach.

Our last stop on Saturday was Pointe du Hoc which is between Utah and Omaha Beaches. These are hunks of cement which are scattered all over this area, probably from bombing by Americans.

This is a bunker we were able to climb down into. It is still in good shape.

This is still the Pointe du Hoc area. The scattered craters have been left untouched.