The view out of our window in the Bed and Breakfast we stayed at, Le Mas Normand. We loved it there and wished we could have had more time to enjoy it.

Isaac's favorite thing about the place was Grenard the puppy-dog.

An exumed and restored tank on Juno Beach, where the Canadians landed on D-Day.

Omaha beach. This is where the Americans landed on D-Day. Many men lost their lives that day fighting to free the French from the Nazis. The French honor the memory of that day well.

A French memorial for the Americans that died on D-Day.

9,387 American soldiers are buried in the American Cemetery in Normandy. Almost all of them died on D-Day. The beach where they lost their lives is in full view of this cemetery to the right of where this photo was taken.

A Jewish-American who gave his life to defeat the Nazis.

An unknown soldier. There are approximately 300 of these. The inscription reads, "Here rests in honored glory a comrade in arms known but to God."

In honor of Paratrooper John Steele, the church of Saint Mere Eglise has a paratrooper hanging from its spire by his parachute. During the attempted parachute drop into Saint Mere Eglise to cut off German reinforcements on D-Day, paratrooper John Steele was caught on the church and had to play dead for a full 24 hours before Allied forces took the town and cut him down.

Inside the church there is a stained glass depicting the parachute drop from that day. The paratroopers thought they were going to be landing under the safe cover of darkness. They unfortunately were illuminated by several houses that had caught fire that night in the town and were picked off one by one by the Nazi forces below who where already out in town in full force because of the fires. Very few survived.