Finally Jeff has arrived and as Alec said in the middle of night
"our trio is complete." Why he had to wake me up in the middle of the night I do not know.
And what did Jeff do the first full day in France?
Jeff and I visited the German and American Cemetaries in Thiacourt.
14,000 German Soldiers lay to rest in the German Cemetary and
5,000 in the American. Jeff's grandfather Raymond Connor fought with the 101st regiment, 26th division, AEF in this area during WWI in the autumn of 1918. Members of his regiment are buried in this cemetary. The land was given to the United States by France and is AmericanDuring the last 11 years of our marriage I have been learning history despite myself. While walking in the German cemetary Jeff pointed numerous crosses for soldiers that were "replacement reserves" that were killed in 1915. These men were the first volunteers; patriotic
young Germans, the best Germany had to offer. These men died in the thousands during
the first year of the war.
It is sombering to see thousands of crosses, each engraved with names, each a son, a husband, a father. I wonder what will be the memorial for the Iraq war?
14,000 German Soldiers lay to rest in the German Cemetary and
5,000 in the American. Jeff's grandfather Raymond Connor fought with the 101st regiment, 26th division, AEF in this area during WWI in the autumn of 1918. Members of his regiment are buried in this cemetary. The land was given to the United States by France and is AmericanDuring the last 11 years of our marriage I have been learning history despite myself. While walking in the German cemetary Jeff pointed numerous crosses for soldiers that were "replacement reserves" that were killed in 1915. These men were the first volunteers; patriotic
young Germans, the best Germany had to offer. These men died in the thousands during
the first year of the war.
It is sombering to see thousands of crosses, each engraved with names, each a son, a husband, a father. I wonder what will be the memorial for the Iraq war?
