9,000 Fallen Soldiers Etched into the Sand
on Normandy Beach to Commemorate Peace Day on September 25, 2013
This past weekend
British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy
Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of
Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing
fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen
9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of the
civillians, Germans and allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings
at Arromanches on June 6th, 1944 during WWII. The original team consisted of 60
volunteers, but as word spread nearly 500 additional local residents arrived to
help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours before being
washed away by the tide.
