D-Day

Went to see the D-Day flotilla leave from Portsmouth to Normandy. Impressive and humbling.

Learnt that the French may have suffered up to 20,000 civilian casulties on D-Day from Allied bombing. Never considered this before.

Saw documentary which detailed a letter found in the ruins of a bombed French house by a dead body; the guy was trapped after bombs hit and knew he would die. In his letter he said that he was happy knowing that this was all part of the Allied invasion, and that soon France would be free again.

Definately not going to make any French jokes for at least a couple of weeks!