The Fallen 9000-INCREDIBLE Normandy Beach Tribute !! WOW !!

 THE ABSOLUTE! One of the best, if not the best, WW II Tribute ever. And Hoo-Rah to the French for honoring our fallen, but Bah Humbug to our news media for ignoring them.  

 

SUBJECT:  Incredible Tribute on Normandy Beach; Surprise; it was not reported by the American media
God Bless them all…Those who made the sacrifice and those who remembered.

 

Shame on all those who studiously ignored such an elegant tribute; may God forgive them.

 

9,000 Fallen Soldiers Etched into the Sand on Normandy Beach to Commemorate Peace Day September 25, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by

 numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand.

 

Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of the civilians, Germans and allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings at Arromanches on June 6, 1944 during WWII. The original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but as word spread nearly 500 additional local residents arrived to help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours before being washed away by the tide. 

276 Soldiers Killed Saved American Army Battle Of Brooklyn

After/during the Battle of Brooklyn on August 27, 1776 Washington's army amazingly escaped.  It's considered a bit of a miracle and much surprised the British.  Some, including David McCullough, call it the most important moment/battle of the Revolutionary War.  If Washington's army had not escaped the British probably would have won the war then and there.  "Soldiers from the First Maryland Regiment under Col. William Smallwood" are American heroes as they saved Washington's army.  "Vastly outnumbered, they launched a series of counterattacks that stymied rapidly advancing British forces."  "These soldiers saved the Revolution ."  "As many as 256 Maryland soldiers, almost two-thirds or the regiment, were killed."  "They really did sacrifice themselves...They knew going in they didn't have a great chance of coming out."  No one now knows for sure where the mass grave these soldiers are buried in is located exactly.  Many feel that these soldiers "deserve the same level of veneration accorded the military cemeteries at Gettysburg and Normandy."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/nyregion/historian-points-to-gowanus-brooklyn-lot-as-grave-of-first-maryland-regiment.html?pagewanted%3Dall&_r=0

This monument is located on Lookout Hill in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY: