I often think that I just imagined this.
But I have a few pictures.
So maybe not.
St. Ann d’Auray.
There is a WWI memorial there,
It honors the quarter million Bretons who gave their lives in the defense of France in the Great War.
The memorial is a huge cavity dug into a hillside in France.
The cavity has a sort of wall of stone girding it, and in that wall are the names of the 250,000 Bretons who died for god and country.
I always wonder why the facsimile in Washington DC gets so much press.
And why its creator gets so much reverence.
And I was there.
Vietnam.
And I was there.
St. Ann d’Auray.
And I am glad that I got out alive.
Vietnam.
But I wonder why the great DC Black Wall never gives a nod to the wall that preceded it.
AND MUST HAVE BEEN ITS INSPIRATION.
It – the wall of St. Ann d’Auray – precedes the great black wall IN DC by a lot of years.
But Americans always think that they have invented everything.
Even when it is impossible to support that belief.
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