{"id":4080,"date":"2012-02-26T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T12:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awanderfullife.com\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2018-05-18T00:25:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T22:25:15","slug":"photo-of-the-day-from-france-les-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/?p=4080","title":{"rendered":"Photo Of The Day From France: Les Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wind whipped the flags behind us and the gusts were so strong that I was compelled to lean against any available building or post when I had a chance. But the sky was gloriously layered as Mark strode between the metal blades of the sculpture and the beauty of it all took my breath away.<\/p>\n

Les Braves<\/strong><\/a> is not the usual type of memorial that one sees on battlefields. It is a soaring piece of contemporary art that was commemorated in 2004 at the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy during World War II. The French government commissioned this magnificent piece created by the woman sculptor Anilore Banon<\/strong>.<\/a>
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Les Braves monument on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France<\/p><\/div>
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\nWe were fortunate to be there when the tide was out enough to walk around. But as you can see from the video on Banon’s site, the monument is surrounded by water when the tide is high and that too is quite a dramatic sight.<\/p>\n

I have intentionally used a smaller version of the image so that you can click on the photo and EXPAND it<\/strong><\/em> to see the stunning beauty of that place, the somber moodiness that the weather created, and most of all, to take in the striking work of art against the sea and the sand. <\/p>\n

To me it appears to be a glistening collection of swords impaled in those previously bloody sands, hilts buried in the beach and blade ends rising heavenward. But they also have the appearance of very contemporary and glowing angel wings. I suppose that it is up to each of us to interpret it according to our own personal vision and response.<\/p>\n

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The wind whipped the flags behind us and the gusts were so strong that I was compelled to lean against any available building or post when I had a chance. But the sky was gloriously layered as Mark strode between the metal blades of the sculpture and the beauty of it all took my breath […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[387,354,768,61,296,42,209],"tags":[789,104,75,791,1630,792,790,360,593,140,143,11,266],"class_list":["post-4080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-battles-and-warfare","category-beach-2","category-europe","category-france","category-photography","category-travel-2","tag-anilore-banon","tag-art","tag-beach","tag-d-day","tag-france","tag-landing-beach","tag-les-braves","tag-normandy","tag-omaha-beach","tag-sculpture","tag-tourism","tag-travel","tag-world-war-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLnqP-13O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}