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Joe Steinbring

Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer

My Mom, in a dark coat and knit hat, by the tall stone monument, with the sea behind her.
My Mom at the Signal monument on Omaha Beach.2019 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring
Static offline map showing Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer in France with a location pin.

I was here at the end of October 2019, near the start of a crazy journey with my Mom through Spain, France, England, and Morocco. Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer sits on Omaha Beach, where American troops came ashore on D-Day, June 6, 1944. We saw the Signal monument and, on the sand below it, Les Braves, a steel sculpture put up for the landings’ 60th anniversary in 2004, before going on to the Normandy American Cemetery, on the bluff above the beach in Colleville-sur-Mer.

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  • Three clusters of tall, curved stainless-steel blades on the sand, gray surf breaking behind.

    Les Braves, put up on Omaha Beach for the 60th anniversary of D-Day.

    2019 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

  • Steel blades on the wet sand, the stone monument on the seawall and houses under an overcast sky.

    Les Braves, with the Signal monument behind it.

    2019 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

  • Gentle surf on wide, empty sand, the shoreline curving away toward distant bluffs.

    The surf on Omaha Beach.

    2019 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

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