Victor's Meanderings

When I was just 20 years of age, I took a semester off from college to visit Europe . One late Sunday night, north of Paris , I found myself nearing the Normandy Coast . I spotted a small cement building. I did not comprehend initially what the building was but later it occurred to me it was a “pill box”, a building built by German soldiers to protect them from the Allied Invasion. I had an eerie feeling about the place. That was 64 years ago. Today, on this anniversary, there is nothing in the press about D-Day, one of the most important events in this country in over 100 years. It is shameful. The invasion of Normandy was the invasion and establishment of Allied forces in Normandy , France during Operation Overload in World War II. It covers the initial landings on June 6, 1944 until the Allied breakout in mid-July. It was the largest seaborne invasion at the time, involving over 850,000 troops crossing the English Channel from the United Kingdom to Normandy by

My son, Evan, and his wife Kristin finished their clinical rotations at the Hospital in Browning Montana the first part of May. Browning is on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation. They found the staff to be very warm and helpful. Browning is near the east entrance to Glacier National Park and although the town itself has little to offer, it was a good jumping off place to many cross country skiing trails. After work, Evan, Kristin and some of their colleagues would go out for a late evening ski often returning the dark. Kristin had to return to Philadelphia and work. Evan on the other hand, had six weeks before he needed to be in Philadelphia to start his new position at the University of Pennsylvania . He was accepted for their residence program in internal medicine. So to celebrate Evan’s completion of medical school, we decided a road trip to the Northeast would be lots of fun. First leg of the trip was from Three Forks to Seven Bays , Washington . Seven Bays