Caen

This saturday we took a bus to Caen to see the war museum and Pointe du Hoc. The museum was great, on the outside it looks like a big hunk of concrete that says "La douleur m'a brisee, la fraternite m'a relevee, de ma blessure a jailli un fleuve de liberte" (The pain broke me, the fraternity lifted me up, from my injury a river of liberty flows.) Inside it's broken up by war, starting with WWI, then WWII, then a brief September 11th memorial, then Vietnam and the Cold War together. Each section had videos, lots of artifacts and propaganda and plaques explaining everything. I posted a few of the pictures I took, the ones that I thought were the most interesting. 

A Flag from the site of 9/11

A wedding dress from the WWII era made from a parachute

WWII artwork....haunting

After the museum we went to Pointe du Hoc, a beach used for receiving good shipped in from the US or England. You can still see the remains of the man-made harbor that ran in an arc along the coast.