Posts Tagged 'Champagne'

We headed off to our next chateau, but on the way we passed another World War I cemetery. The Aisne-Marne American Cemetery nestles up against the foothills of the Belleau Woods where most of the 2289 American soldiers who are buried there lost their lives.  It is a beautiful, peaceful yet haunting park with its row after row of grave markers.  To see the names of so many American heroes on the stark stone chapel walls brings tears ...