June 6th 2007

Two things I learnt by watching the news yesterday:

1) the number of visitors at the Colleville cemetery in Normandy reaches the amazing figure of 1 million people every year from all nationalities.

2) only 15% of the amno around the beaches has been found and the marine goes out on mining missions almost every day. It is expected that bombs will be found for at least another hundred years. The example shown on tv was a concrete anti tank mine made with 30mn shells that was still perfectly intact after 63 years.