"This haunting collection of images shows what it would look like if the ghosts of World War II returned to our streets. The remarkable pictures overlay modern scenes from France with atmospheric photographs taken in the same place during the war.
Historical expert Jo Teeuwisse, from Amsterdam, began the project after finding 300 old negatives at a flea market in her home city depicting familiar places in a very different context. She researched the background to each of the most interesting finds and created a beautiful series of pictures by super-imposing the old pictures on top of new ones."
Entire article with more pictures
Very moving, as I think back about fathers and grandfathers of friends who were there and now are gone.
The only stories these heroes ever told were funny ones, about things they saw and people they met along the way. To a man very optimistic people, never once did they ever burden a kid with the horrors they must have witnessed.
Thanks for posting, a great deal of creativity on display to honor those most deserving.
