Military keyword > dday > Turning south from there I came to what seemed to me the saddest and most disturbing place of all.  The German Cemetery at La Camba.  In the centre, on top of a large grassy mound, surrounded by red roses stand two shrouded figures.
Military keyword > dday > Normandy Memoirs...A Personal Reflction photo
Military keyword > dday > Another
Military keyword > dday > A man and a woman, separated by a large cross, all carved of dull black volcanic rock. They are clearly mourning the 21 500 men buried here!.
Military keyword > dday > Turning south from there I came to what seemed to me the saddest and most disturbing place of all.  The German Cemetery at La Camba.  In the centre, on top of a large grassy mound, surrounded by red roses stand two shrouded figures.  A man and a woman, separated by a large cross, all carved of dull black volcanic rock. They are clearly mourning the 21 500 men buried here!.
Military keyword > dday > None of the simple small ground
level plaques marking each grave with name and rank indicated that the SS or Hitler Youth ever existed. I wondered which were just conscript soldiers caught up in the whirlwind and which were fanaticalNazi's  There was no way to tell which of these had deported Jews to death camps, or summarily executed civilians. Here they lay, just like all the others, the pride of Hitler's "Master Race", their blood required, to save Germany's soul. In between each section of graves  were groups of five crosses of the same black volcanic stone.I placed a rose on one of these and wrote.
                                   
                              I leave a
                            blood red rose
                        on a black black cross
                         It is all I can find
                             in my heart
                          as reconciliation.
Military keyword > dday > American  Cemetery at Omaha
Military keyword > dday > Row, upon row, upon row, of white crosses
Military keyword > dday > Canadian Cemetery at Juno
Turning south from there I came to what seemed to me the saddest and most disturbing place of all. The German Cemetery at La Camba. In the centre, on top of a large grassy mound, surrounded by red roses stand two shrouded figures.
 > Turning south from there I came to what seemed to me the saddest and most disturbing place of all.  The German Cemetery at La Camba.  In the centre, on top of a large grassy mound, surrounded by red roses stand two shrouded figures.
Turning south from there I came to what seemed to me the saddest and most disturbing place of all. The German Cemetery at La Camba. In the centre, on top of a large grassy mound, surrounded by red roses stand two shrouded figures.
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