Posts by Pamela
Road Trip Through History: German Bunkers and Reinforced Concrete
At dinner on our first night in Normandy, we ended up in conversation with two men at a neighboring table, a pair of British history buggs who were also touring D-Day sites in Normandy. They had already spend several days looking at the remains of the battles over Normandy, and one of them made a…
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Road Trip Through History: Lest We Forget
On Memorial Day, My Own True Love and I make sure we attend a service in honor of the fallen. This year we were in Normandy on Memorial Day, enjoying a D-Day tour. In some ways, the entire tour was an extended Memorial Day experience, defined by General John Logan, the holiday’s founder, as “cherishing…
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From the Archives: Antony Beevor’s Second World War
While I continue to struggle with the next blog post about a stop on our D-Day tour, I thought I would share this review from the archives on a related subject. With any luck I’ll have successfully found my way into the Grand Bunker museum and out again by next week. When Antony Beevor’s…
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