Mercy Buckets, Silver Plate! France: Le Havre, Normandy Beaches, Mont St. Michel

At the Omaha Beach Museum parking lot.

Omaha Beach Memorial

Adler on Omaha Beach

Iconic

Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial at Colleville-Sur-Mer

The geometry of the American Cemetery was astonishing

Robert and Preston Niland are buried in this row, two of the brothers who died (a third Niland brother was presumed dead but later showed up alive) and for which reason Sgt. Fritz Niland was spared the rest of the war, the fictionalized version of which came down through cinema history as Saving Private Ryan.

Probably the most interesting thing about the cemetery is how few people actually died here on D-Day itself; from our experience it seemed like 1/10th or less.

Mercer was not with us on this adventure

One of the many memorials to the War

Family in front of a German artillery bunker at Pointe Du Hoc on the Normandy coast

To the Wonder:  on the way to Mont St. Michel

Up on the top of Mont St. Michel.

Children in the cloister

Children inside

Family at one of the towers

Family on the causeway in front of the island

Walker carries Adler away from La Merveilleuse.