SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2009
NORMANDY- CEREMONIES AT THE AMERICAN CEMETERY |
Solemn Site
the neat rows of grave markers and view over Omaha Beach is always
moving |
Seating Area
for hundreds was set up in the mall |
Special Delivery
Major Duke Boswell and Barbara (Gavin) Fauntleroy are taken to
the presentation site |
Even More Special
was the Presidential Limo |
Huge Crowd
filled the central mall area of the cemetery grounds |
Hot Seats
the sunny weather forced some to create their own shade and others
to wish they could |
Ubiquitous Cell Phones
at least three are in use here |
Television Coverage
was plentiful |
Long Lenses
enabled still photographers to get some good shots |
SNAP SHOT
for many, a camera raised high was the only hope of getting a
memorable photo |
Freedom Is Forever Hallowed
inscription makes a perfect backdrop as multi-national leaders stand
behind their country's flags |
Nichols
Sarkozy
President of France |
Barrack
Obama
President of the United States |
James Gordon
Brown
Prime Minister of England |
Imagine 6,000 More
ships offshore 65 years ago! |
Zane Schlemmer
receives the Legion of Honor medal from
President Sarkozy |
Michelle Obama
poses for photo with Zane Schlemmer (or was it the other way
around??) |
Fly Over
of French fighters |
|
All Normandy 'D-Day Plus 65' trip photos are a
multi-national mixture of work by
Hervé Argoud, Hans DeBree, Gene Garren, Fred Hoek, Herbert Lahout, Randy
Lewellen, Cyndi
Mathews, Bill Nation, Dick O'Donnell,
Dominique Potier, Vivian Roger, Zane Schlemmer, Donald van den Bogert and Nelly
van Loo-Polley. Individual credits have not been
given. |
