Picked up the new stallion and visited Luxembourg Cemetery

Had a good (but looooooong) day.... SWMBO says "I want to drive"... She can't do high bridges, so no autobahn driving. Beautiful cross country drive, but not when you start at 0230... Get about halfway into it and hit a detour and construction and the "I wanna drive flame started flickering"
I don't do oncoming traffic lights real well in the first place and the construction sites made things worse but we made it to luxembourg cemetery parking lot at 0830 (twice the time and stress (for me) of an autobon drive, but we made it. We were the only car in the lot 30 minutes before the gate opened and the director sent a guy out to get us. Gave us coffee and gave us a map to a couple particular graves a verbal tour before turning us loose. SWMBO took about a gazillion pictures and we were on our way to the airport 3 miles away to pick up the new boss...
That made the whole morning worthwhile. Stars musta been lined up right or sumpin... 30 minutes from signing in, we had been thru security/metal detectors, paperwork, loaded and back on the road.
Bought this little guy on a gut feeling and a few pics and are reel happy. He's a weanling that was seperated from his mom and started his trip to us 2 weeks later. Handled the whole thing like a champ. Walked on the trailer like he'd been doing it all his life and the autobahn trip never fased him. He is as big as our two yearlings also. No pics yet, but I'm sure tomorrow will see about a gazillion.
Here is a link to the cemetery pics if anyone is interested. The link says facebook, but you don't need an account.

Dave

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...6.100001138262338&type=3&l=36c5b91d96

Thanks for posting the pictures. Its a reminder of the price paid.

Have a uncle buried in St. Avoid France. Went to Germany in 93 to visit a exhange student we had. While there went and visited his grave site. My grandparents had a big picture hanging on the wall of that cemetery

Thanks for posting the link Dave. Too bad she got many pictures of that ugly little troll........course guess she wanted to get pictures of that oddity too. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Rick

Dave I didn't ask before, is there any particular significance to the graves in your photos? Other than the General of course.

They're all significant.. I did single out a couple on request tho... Hard to see in the pics, but there are a couple walls with the names of MIA's... Some of the names have a bronze button beside them. Those are ones that the remains were recovered as time passed...

Poorly worded question, I was referring to the individuals you singled out, I thought perhaps there might be a reason you had done so.

(quoted from post at 07:00:15 11/17/12) Poorly worded question, I was referring to the individuals you singled out, I thought perhaps there might be a reason you had done so.

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No, just the medal of honor recipient stone and the star of david ones because they are out of the ordinary, then special requests. While cleaning up, I hope to run over a picture album that I made up 15 or so years ago from visits of most of the cemeteries in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg and of the Normandy area. If I still have it, I'll be a scanning fool....