Photo for the day: The Patton Memorial, Avranches, Normandy.

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Surprised the heck out of me, but Patton is regarded with much gratitude around here, as the impeccably maintained (fresh coat of paint on that Sherman) monument indicates.

On my way to St. Lo/Bayeax now.

Birdwatcher

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744