Thursday, September 26, 2013

D-Day Art

 
Vajayjay Culture

The 'fallen' were left to be washed away by the tide at the end of the day
Res Ipsa Loquitor

A pair of British artists have created this stunning installation of 9,000 silhouettes on a D-Day Landings beach to mark international Peace Day.

The project, named, 'The Fallen' is a tribute to the civilians, German forces and Allies who lost their lives during the Operation Neptune landing on June 6, 1944.

The design was the brainchild of Jamie Wardley, 33, and Andy Moss, 50.

Together with a team of volunteers the pair travelled to Arromanches beach, Normandy, to create the silhouettes, which were individually drawn into the sand. [Full]

"Peace Day" sophistry aside, this is an excellent companion piece to the opening 30 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan." We are so used to the hyperbolical use of numbers that it takes pictures like those to drive home the horror of D-Day beaches, and 9000 casualties.


A curmudgeonly aside.  It is my misfortune that MoSup watches the Today Show each  morning.  Before I could skedaddle today, I was treated to  Matt Lauer 's segment "Zimmerman's wife holds her ground."  Evidently she is filing for divorce from the beast because, who knows; he broke the iPad with her evidence. She did mention that she'd  "lost 40 pounds, " and was ready to "move on."  Right.  Anyway, Lauer did his damnedest to get her to say that he lied about "targeting" the Trayvon thug, to no avail.  They just will not give up on this. But here's the linkage to Normandy.

I can see a  1940's Matt Lauer interviewing widows and mothers  every morning about how they feel about the death of their husband/son.  "In retrospect, do you  feel it was worth the loss of your loved one for this cause?"   Because that's what they've done during every war since Vietnam.  And it's why women feel that Liberals have their six. Sheesh.





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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I still want to piss on Walker Conkite's grave.
Tim

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Yup, I checked, The bastid's still there!

iri said...

Just another reason I'm glad I don't live there any longer. I swore I wasn't going back but I just might for the above reason.

USMC2841 said...

I see they didn't have enough beachfront to fit the Jewish massacre silhouettes. Bad people will not stop unless forced to at any cost.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

huh?

Wabano said...

Pacifists? The cheek that these scumbags have!
Remember that they provided Hitler with massive support..."We shall not die for Dantzig"...
they chanted by the millions...then ALL joined the Nazi party when the invitation to invade was
accepted...look up pacifist leader Jacques Doriot who died strafed by a Spitfire in a
back road of Germany in his nazi officer's limousine...A lot of them also died on the
Eastern Front in the Waffen SS Charlemagne or in the street of Berlin
fighting their former bosses, the Soviets!

molonlabe28 said...

Forgive me for my gag reflex when I see someone wanting to honor the Nazi dead, along with our and the British heroes.

My wife also watches the Today Show.

In fact, NBC (as opposed to Investigation Discovery or the Bio Channel) is her default channel.

I cannot stand NBC in general or the Today Show in particular.

I explain to her that it is a completely Godless network, which exalts in the cult of celebrity and other shallow, morally deficient content.

iri said...

^
Then she said, "fix your own dinner". Women, you can't live with them.

Anonymous said...

Wabano, one may learn all that is necessary about the French by sitting through all four hours of The Sorrow & The Pity. Classic stuff, and you shouldn't be able to graduate from High School without seeing it.

Casca

Rodger the Real King of France said...

sorrow and pity - you
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