{"id":112047,"date":"2024-08-07T12:47:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T19:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=112047"},"modified":"2024-08-07T12:55:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T19:55:12","slug":"light-columns-cleared-the-emotions-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/112047-light-columns-cleared-the-emotions-again-and-again","title":{"rendered":"Light Columns Cleared the Emotions Again and Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday 21st<\/sup> July 2024, my husband and I visited the British Normandy Memorial in France, (www.britishnormandymemorial.org<\/a>).\u00a0 With the 80th<\/sup> Anniversary of D-Day on 6th<\/sup> June this year, this relatively new memorial had been televised with interviews of the few remaining veterans who had arrived in France on D-Day.\u00a0 The programme was very moving and we decided to visit.<\/p>\n

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The energy in that place was incredible.\u00a0 Although there were a few hundred people walking around, everyone was silent.\u00a0 My husband said he was too choked up to speak and I had tears running down my face.\u00a0 The sheer enormity of the event that had taken place was quite overwhelming and the residue of energy in the air was palpable.<\/p>\n

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Every few yards I stopped to blow my nose and wipe away my tears, although I do not think the tears were just my own.\u00a0 I started to plant light columns on each occasion that I paused, and I felt the emotions clear completely, until I read the next message.\u00a0 There were messages from families to the loved ones they had lost.<\/p>\n

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However, the most moving message that I read was from someone who wrote \u201cThe ultimate sacrifice these brave young men made, allows me today to write these words!\u201d\u00a0 I must have planted 20 or 30 light columns.<\/p>\n

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Back at the Churchill museum there were stories from ordinary young men about what they did and who they had lost.\u00a0 God bless them all.<\/p>\n

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On Sunday 21st July 2024, my husband and I visited the British Normandy Memorial in France, (www.britishnormandymemorial.org).\u00a0 With the 80th Anniversary of D-Day on 6th June this year, this relatively new memorial had been televised with interviews of the few remaining veterans who had arrived in France on D-Day.\u00a0 The programme was very moving and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,6513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-light-ambassadors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}