Omaha Beach

Visiting Normandy was a really wonderful experience. Our hotel was in a little village right next to Omaha beach. The beach in the village was completely covered with huge flat seashells. It was so cool.

First stop of the morning was the bakery for breakfast. We ate at the pier and enjoyed looking at the fishing boats then headed out for the day. The kids had all written reports about the different beaches and aspects of WWII & D-Day. We were all touched at Omaha beach as we walked along the sand and tried to imagine how difficult it must have been to forge through the waters onto land and up the hedges. Grandpa Paul Herscher was one of the lucky soldiers who survived the first wave onto Omaha Beach. We thought a great deal about the struggles he went through along with so many other soldiers. It was sobering to think that only 1 out of 9 soldiers survived that day.