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2025 Christmas Light Show

Three videos on this year’s playlist. This year I started using XLights to produce the lightshow. Merry Christmas!

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France 2024 - Day 13

Saint-Chapelle Our final day in France started with a visit to a little park near our hotel. The Park has a special past with a small chapel in it. Chapelle Expiatoire was the original burial ground for those beheaded …

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France 2024 - Day 12

Versailles Louis XIII built a hunting lodge outside of Paris where his very young son developed some fond memories. At age 5 Louis XIII died and that young son was to be the next king. His mother and a court elder ruled …

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France 2024 - Day 11

Remembrance Our final day of the tour was back near the beaches where many of those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom lie. We started at the newly completed British memorial where the names of all the dead and …

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France 2024 - Day 10

Falaise Pocket After the failure of the german counter-offensive, the rout was on. The Britishm Canadians and Polish forces were finally pushing the Germans back. Meanwhile, the American Forces had cleared the Cherborg …

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France 2024 - Day 9

Operation Cobra The grind of the bacage fighting in western France and the battle of attrition to the east was weighing heavily upon the allied command. Clearly, something had to be done. General Omar Bradley, usually …

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France 2024 - Day 8

U.S. Airborne and La Haye du Puits Today we continued looking at the American sector and the continued slow, deadly progress in the Cherbourg peninsula. Over the course of the first weeks of the Normandy campaign, the …

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France 2024 - Day 7

Terrain Day With the initial securing of the beach heads allied forces began to move inland. The British, Canadian and Polish troups started a head-to-head battle with the Germans protecting Caen and other routes east. …