Lorraine: The Military Cemetery

On the last Sunday of Katy's visit we took a trip up to Lorraine, the region just to the north. Large areas of Lorraine, along with all of Alsace, traded hands between France and Germany five times in the 75 years prior to the end of WWII. Lorraine was also the scene of much fighting in the final year of that war.

Because Katy's dad had been in the war, she wanted to go up to Lorraine to visit the US Military Cemetery there, near the town of Saint Avold. We had visited the Military Cemetery in Normandy, where they laid the fallen from the initial invasion of France in the summer/autumn of 1944. The Lorraine Cemetery at Saint Avold is the resting place for those who fell in winter 1944 / spring 1945 in the liberation of Eastern France and the initial invasion of Germany.
Amanda and Theresa and I had visited Saint Avold back in May.