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elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2014-06-06 09:16 am
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D-Day, 70 years on




The Fallen: 9000 Figures Hand-Drawn in the Sand for D-Day

Not sure what year these were made, but it's very powerful.

"The idea is to create a visual representation of what is otherwise unimaginable – the thousands of human lives lost during the hours of the tide during the WWII Normandy landings on 6 June 1944."
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-06-06 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
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[identity profile] geekslave.livejournal.com 2014-06-06 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, that is a powerful image.

Stacey
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-06-06 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I wanted some sort of picture for my post, and google brought up this...
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-06-06 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
IKR? It's impossible to imagine the numbers, but this helped.

[identity profile] dieastra.livejournal.com 2014-06-06 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
That's very impressive indeed.
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-06-06 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It struck me as a very helpful representation.
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-06-07 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
It really helps you to understand it better...
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