bigwheelzip
Absent Comrade
My phone's photo app reminded me that two years ago today was the last day of our last vacation, before the pandemic canceled everything that followed.
Those last few hours in Paris we visited the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial Cemetery, whose responsibility of care had recently been transferred to the American Battle Monuments Commission. The American renovations to the memorial were mostly finished, leaving a respectful tribute to the first of our countrymen to ever engage in air-to-air combat.
From the ABMC:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlSP2DeJXJ0[/ame]
Those last few hours in Paris we visited the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial Cemetery, whose responsibility of care had recently been transferred to the American Battle Monuments Commission. The American renovations to the memorial were mostly finished, leaving a respectful tribute to the first of our countrymen to ever engage in air-to-air combat.




From the ABMC:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlSP2DeJXJ0[/ame]