rebirth is an important symbol in art, religion & society.
The best and worst of human behaviour.
It was 1944, I think.
A bunch of Canadian soldiers did the hard work, because Churchill would have
been beheaded if he sent his wimpy boys into the fray. Some Yanks came along too.
They hit the beach under German fire and managed to get a foothold against the Germans.
Enough evocative wartime bullsh*t. I've always hated war movies,
even though I'm trained up.
So, the war is long over, and soldiers have been buried and memorialised
and thanked a million times. Enough already.
Now the French want to plant some wind turbines offshore.
NOT EVEN ON THE BEACH ITSELF
and old-fart soldiers are complaining.
They want the place as a pristine reminder of human stupidity.
Nice, but life is for the living.
Land is limited; people have to live. they need energy.
End of story.
Here's the artwork of a guy named KHIMOUNE.
He created a bunch of clay turtle/soldier helmets.
I guess they're symbolic of the choice to let the world live, or to
worship carnage. Turtles probably use the beach to lay eggs.
But, in the 40s, humans beached their war craft to engage in wholesale
destruction.
I choose the turtles.
The soldiers died by fiat from Whitehall. There's not much pride in executive decisions to go to war.
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We'll fight them off the beaches! Fury of D-Day veterans over French plans for a massive windfarm on Normandy coastline
By Colin Randall
Last updated at 2:59 PM on 2nd February 2011
For those who remain, the beaches of Normandy will forever be sacred, echoing with the cries of those young men cut down as they waded ashore to defend our freedom.
Now, 66 years on, the dwindling band of D-Day veterans faces a new battle against an unexpected invader.
A giant offshore windfarm within sight of the beaches where 2,500 allied soldiers died is being planned by French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
Sacred sands: Soldiers who fought on D-Day are facing a new battle against the French government after they proposed to build a windfarm off Juno Beach, where 2,500 Allied soldiers lost their lives
Sacred sands: Soldiers who fought on D-Day are facing a new battle against the French government after they proposed to build a windfarm off Juno Beach, where 2,500 Allied soldiers lost their lives
The proposal for 80 525ft high windmills off Juno Beach, one of the five beaches where troops landed in the Second World War, has angered the old soldiers.
Major-General Tony Richardson, 88, president of the Normandy Veterans’ Association, called the French plans ‘horrible’.
‘The D-Day beaches are a historical place and I would like to see them remain unspoilt,’ he said.
Ed Slater, chairman of the organisation, said he would raise the issue at a meeting with the British Legion and Ministry of Defence.
Inappropriate: Senior members of the Veterans' Association says that the proposed windfarm will affect the former soldiers memories of the location
Inappropriate: Senior members of the Veterans' Association says that the proposed windfarm will affect the former soldiers memories of the location
Parade: As well as the British soldiers misgivings, members of French commemorative bodies have also described the plans as 'inappropriate and incoherent'
Parade: As well as the British soldiers misgivings, members of French commemorative bodies have also described the plans as 'inappropriate and incoherent'
‘I would agree with those who say it seems inappropriate to place them there at a place of sacred memory,’ said Mr Slater, 87, who on June 6, 1944, was serving with the Royal Navy on board an American frigate guarding the eastern approaches to Sword Beach.
‘People looking out to sea from the coast to try to figure out where they were on that day, or where mates were lost at sea, won’t have a clue if there are these things offshore.
‘I do sympathise with the idea of building windmills to generate power but would have thought they’d be better placed out on the moors where the wind is blowing all the time.’
Wind power: The French government hopes to built a total of five windfarms with 600 turbines and hopes to generate 6,000 megawatts of power using the method by 2020
Wind power: The French government hopes to built a total of five windfarms with 600 turbines and hopes to generate 6,000 megawatts of power using the method by 2020
He said he would consider writing to Mr Sarkozy, whom he has met three times, to seek assurances that the windmills would not be built at locations where servicemen were killed.
In all, five windfarms with a total of 600 turbines will be built over the coming decade about seven miles off the western coast of France at a cost of almost £20billion.
France, which relies overwhelmingly on nuclear power stations, aims to be generating up to 6,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy by 2020.
The French government insists that the turbines put up off the Normandy beaches, on which work is due to start in 2015, will not be visible from the coast.
D-Day: Allied troops make their landing on Juno Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944
D-Day: Allied troops make their landing on Juno Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944
But this is disputed by critics, who say it will be easy to see them from the shoreline by day and that they will cause light pollution at night.
The British veterans’ misgivings are shared by France’s official association commemorating D-Day and by French ecologists, who fear permanent damage to the character of an area of such powerful resonance on both sides of the Channel.
Admiral Christian Brac de la Perriere, the president of two commemorative bodies, the Comité du Débarquement and Normandie Memoire, said the plans were ‘inappropriate and incoherent’.
He described the proposed development as being at odds with French government hopes for the coastline from Utah Beach to Sword Beach to be named a Unecso world heritage site.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1352689/D-Day-veterans-fury-French-plans-windfarm-Normandy-coastline.html#ixzz1SMssPxjo
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D-Day Veterans Fight Against Offshore Wind Turbines (France)
Posted on Jun 6th, 2011 with tags against, D-Day, europe, fight, France, News by topic, offshore, turbines, UK, Veterans, wind.
VETERANS of the D-Day landings are campaigning to stop a huge offshore wind farm being built near the famous beaches.
Dozens of 450ft turbines would be sited fewer than 10 miles from the place where the landings took place exactly 67 years ago tomorrow.
David Churchcroft from north London, a former infantryman who stormed ashore on June 6, 1944, said: “It will change the entire seascape, destroying a view which evokes memories of the most astonishing invasion in military history.
“This is sacred ground and the French should not be allowed to alter its character.”
They want the place as a pristine reminder of human stupidity.
Nice, but life is for the living.
Land is limited; people have to live. they need energy.
End of story.
Here's the artwork of a guy named KHIMOUNE.
He created a bunch of clay turtle/soldier helmets.
I guess they're symbolic of the choice to let the world live, or to
worship carnage. Turtles probably use the beach to lay eggs.
But, in the 40s, humans beached their war craft to engage in wholesale
destruction.
I choose the turtles.
The soldiers died by fiat from Whitehall. There's not much pride in executive decisions to go to war.
checkitout: 2 texts
1
Daily mail
We'll fight them off the beaches! Fury of D-Day veterans over French plans for a massive windfarm on Normandy coastline
By Colin Randall
Last updated at 2:59 PM on 2nd February 2011
For those who remain, the beaches of Normandy will forever be sacred, echoing with the cries of those young men cut down as they waded ashore to defend our freedom.
Now, 66 years on, the dwindling band of D-Day veterans faces a new battle against an unexpected invader.
A giant offshore windfarm within sight of the beaches where 2,500 allied soldiers died is being planned by French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
Sacred sands: Soldiers who fought on D-Day are facing a new battle against the French government after they proposed to build a windfarm off Juno Beach, where 2,500 Allied soldiers lost their lives
Sacred sands: Soldiers who fought on D-Day are facing a new battle against the French government after they proposed to build a windfarm off Juno Beach, where 2,500 Allied soldiers lost their lives
The proposal for 80 525ft high windmills off Juno Beach, one of the five beaches where troops landed in the Second World War, has angered the old soldiers.
Major-General Tony Richardson, 88, president of the Normandy Veterans’ Association, called the French plans ‘horrible’.
‘The D-Day beaches are a historical place and I would like to see them remain unspoilt,’ he said.
Ed Slater, chairman of the organisation, said he would raise the issue at a meeting with the British Legion and Ministry of Defence.
Inappropriate: Senior members of the Veterans' Association says that the proposed windfarm will affect the former soldiers memories of the location
Inappropriate: Senior members of the Veterans' Association says that the proposed windfarm will affect the former soldiers memories of the location
Parade: As well as the British soldiers misgivings, members of French commemorative bodies have also described the plans as 'inappropriate and incoherent'
Parade: As well as the British soldiers misgivings, members of French commemorative bodies have also described the plans as 'inappropriate and incoherent'
‘I would agree with those who say it seems inappropriate to place them there at a place of sacred memory,’ said Mr Slater, 87, who on June 6, 1944, was serving with the Royal Navy on board an American frigate guarding the eastern approaches to Sword Beach.
‘People looking out to sea from the coast to try to figure out where they were on that day, or where mates were lost at sea, won’t have a clue if there are these things offshore.
‘I do sympathise with the idea of building windmills to generate power but would have thought they’d be better placed out on the moors where the wind is blowing all the time.’
Wind power: The French government hopes to built a total of five windfarms with 600 turbines and hopes to generate 6,000 megawatts of power using the method by 2020
Wind power: The French government hopes to built a total of five windfarms with 600 turbines and hopes to generate 6,000 megawatts of power using the method by 2020
He said he would consider writing to Mr Sarkozy, whom he has met three times, to seek assurances that the windmills would not be built at locations where servicemen were killed.
In all, five windfarms with a total of 600 turbines will be built over the coming decade about seven miles off the western coast of France at a cost of almost £20billion.
France, which relies overwhelmingly on nuclear power stations, aims to be generating up to 6,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy by 2020.
The French government insists that the turbines put up off the Normandy beaches, on which work is due to start in 2015, will not be visible from the coast.
D-Day: Allied troops make their landing on Juno Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944
D-Day: Allied troops make their landing on Juno Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944
But this is disputed by critics, who say it will be easy to see them from the shoreline by day and that they will cause light pollution at night.
The British veterans’ misgivings are shared by France’s official association commemorating D-Day and by French ecologists, who fear permanent damage to the character of an area of such powerful resonance on both sides of the Channel.
Admiral Christian Brac de la Perriere, the president of two commemorative bodies, the Comité du Débarquement and Normandie Memoire, said the plans were ‘inappropriate and incoherent’.
He described the proposed development as being at odds with French government hopes for the coastline from Utah Beach to Sword Beach to be named a Unecso world heritage site.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1352689/D-Day-veterans-fury-French-plans-windfarm-Normandy-coastline.html#ixzz1SMssPxjo
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from Offshorewindbiz
D-Day Veterans Fight Against Offshore Wind Turbines (France)
Posted on Jun 6th, 2011 with tags against, D-Day, europe, fight, France, News by topic, offshore, turbines, UK, Veterans, wind.
VETERANS of the D-Day landings are campaigning to stop a huge offshore wind farm being built near the famous beaches.
Dozens of 450ft turbines would be sited fewer than 10 miles from the place where the landings took place exactly 67 years ago tomorrow.
David Churchcroft from north London, a former infantryman who stormed ashore on June 6, 1944, said: “It will change the entire seascape, destroying a view which evokes memories of the most astonishing invasion in military history.
“This is sacred ground and the French should not be allowed to alter its character.”
