We have arrived in the City of lights! I am finally in Paris! This is a dream come true!
We left Metz this morning and traveled to Verdun. This was a humbling stop. We stopped at a few World War I monuments. I've learned a lot about the blood shed that was seen by these European countries during the great wars, but it is something else to see the loss personally. There were so many lives lost. I had a hard time seeing the cemetery. There were 13,000 crosses that account for 10 lives lost each. That was hard to face. War is a terrible thing. Seeing these monuments worries me, I hope we don't have to experience tragedies such as these, I hope we learn from the past. The Verdun monument was beautiful. I was especially touched by a display they had for an American soldier that fought along side the French soldiers during the war.
Paris is beautiful! The had this gorgeous park with a waterfall and a lake/pond. I have a feeling I will fall in love with this city!
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