From Bayeux we are travelling to the site of the D.Day landings.
Juno, Gold, Omaha, Sword and Utah are sacred names in vernacular of the WW11 veterans.
There are thousands of men who did not return from what General Eisenhower called, "The Great Crusade".
They sleep under the green sward of the headlands above the English Channel. Their final resting places are marked by white grave-stones laid out in ranks of parade ground precision
Millions have made the pilgrimage to pay respect to these fallen heroes and shortly Mark and I will be among them.
Most of the freedoms we enjoy have been paid for in the currency of other men's blood: from the cross of Calvary, the blood of the martyrs, the English and American civil wars, to the fallen officers at Boston last week, invariably the price paid is human blood.
We will be conscious of this when we touch down in Caen next week.
Lest we forget.
Ian
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