Colleville Sur Mer

COLLEVILLE SUR MER In uneasy rest He faces west. They all face west to America - So far away from this beach, So very far out of reach. He no longer feels the chinook Nor the glance of mother’s knowing eye Over the range on his Utah farm. He is the son and brother Of Omaha, Nebraska, and the Sandhills Beckon him home. Silence now The tolling of the trolley Car bell over the Bay. Hear only the swish of beach sand. He dreams endlessly In the cold Channel breeze, From the ocean Between him and home. ...................................................... NOTES Colleville sur Mer is where the American cemetery is located in France. All names on the gravestones face west. Omaha and Utah are the names of invasion beaches on the Channel coast of France where thousands of US soldiers died in 1944.