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Great pictures, Martin! I must reiterate what I told Veronica when she showed us her Normandy photos: I'm extremely jealous! I'll make it to Europe someday - just don't know when. The only WWII battle site I have seen (living in the US you are pretty limited) was Okinawa. When I was in the Marine reserves before I got commissioned, I went to Oki for a two week training event. During the weekend we were there we did the Okinawa battle site tour which took us to the Japanese naval underground HQ, Sugarloaf, and Shuri Castle (the rebuilt Shuri castle.) It was very cool although I wish I had read With the Old Breed before I had gone there.

Let that be a lesson to you all, before you go to a battlefield or other historic site, learn as much as you can! I studied Gettysburg before going and it made the experience much better. I visited Fort Fisher before learning anything about it and it just looked like big evenly spaced man-made hills. Learning about it afterward, I kinda slapped my forehead and said, "Oh! I get it now!"

Maj Todd O. USMC, Retired
Grandson of LTC John O'Brien
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Photos Albums - by rennog - 12-16-2006, 09:56 AM
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