During the 1996 trip, we headed for Paris after visiting northern Germany. On the way, we took a little side trip and visited the Normandy region of France which was the site of the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944.

There are large cemeteries with thousands and thousands of crosses and stars of David grave markers. It really brings home what a tragedy war is for everyone involved.

A short distance from the American cemeteries is one devoted to German solders. They have plain sandstone crosses without any names. Most just said Zwei Deutsche Soldaten meaning that two and sometimes more German solders were buried anonymously in each grave.

There was, however, a small welcome center which had several computers available for visitor use. You could do a search on a last name and, although the graves were unmarked, you could find the names of potential relatives that were buried in this or other plain resting places. So, I sat down and entered Heiden, Rambow and Dreier and here is the result of the search.