Day 14 of An Excellent Adventure

Ken our Tour Guide has filled my head with so many details and I have been in the bus taking copious noted as we headed to our 1st destination. The Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial.

It is difficult to explain for unless you stand at the top of the rise to see the thousands and thousands and thousands of crosses and Jewish stars in one place can you appreciate the sacrifices these men made. There are over 5,000 graves just at this site alone and there are other American grave sites elsewhere. There were over 8,400 men buried here but some of the families of the fallen asked that their bodies be returned to the families. In the picture below you will see small stars next to their names and these are the men whose bodies were exhumed and returned to the US.

Patton Is buried here. All the Americans who fought in the Battle of the Bulge are so appreciated by the people of Luxembourg the country has so many statues thanking the American and Canadians who helped free their country.

Patton, who originally buried amongst his men’s was moved. Apparently so many came to honor Patton made the cemetery very muddy and destroyed the peace of the pace that he is now interred at the top of a small rise so he can oversee all his fallen.

The cemetery is spotless clean and certainly well looked after in reverence and calmness but it is an overpowering feeing you get when you look at so many fallen heroes

There is Chapel on the site that allows you to go in a pray for those fallen and you can sign a book to say you were here

Len and I signed that book

A sobering experience and something that every American should see the amount of lives given (and this is nothing overall) so that can live free.

More to follow…