Every French town, village and city has a monument listing the names of the men and women who left for war and never came back. The collective memory is palpable.
Thanksgiving weekend, I traveled to Bayeux, a town on France’s northwest coast, with Mandy Doering, another Canadian I met during the first week of my exchange. Our plan was to tour the D-Day beaches; however, because we neglected to plan ahead, all the tours were either full or too expensive.
So our plan changed. We rented bicycles from our hostel and headed to Juno Beach, where the Canadians landed on June 6, 1944.Continue...