{"id":30,"date":"2012-08-29T13:11:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2021-12-13T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T18:50:11","slug":"norman-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Norman Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The cliffs at Puys, looking east toward Dieppe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last week I spent several days in Dieppe, a Norman resort city, for the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of a terrible event there: the Dieppe raid, a disastrous Allied attack on the Normandy coast on August 19, 1942. I’ve got a personal connection to Dieppe: my father, an American volunteer fighting with Canada’s Black Watch Regiment, landed on the beach you see above<\/a><\/span> and was among the 1,950 Canadian prisoners taken that day.<\/p>\n

Please check out my two pieces for The New York Times<\/a><\/span> about all this!<\/p>\n

Dad’s story–and my journey–is\u00a0here on At War<\/a><\/span>, the Times’ military blog. There’s audio from my father and another veteran, and video, too.<\/p>\n

This Dieppe Journal <\/a><\/span>is about the commemoration and the history of the battle itself.<\/p>\n

After two failed escape attempts, and several other brushes with death in captivity, my father made it home in 1945.<\/p>\n

He considered himself lucky: of the roughly 5,000 Canadians who landed at Dieppe, only about 2,000–roughly a third of them–made it back that day. More than 900 Canadians were slaughtered almost immediately; and again, nearly 2,000 were taken prisoner.<\/p>\n

So that makes me very lucky too. More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I spent several days in Dieppe, a Norman resort city, for the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of a terrible event there: the Dieppe raid, a disastrous Allied attack on the Normandy coast on August 19, 1942. I’ve got a personal connection to Dieppe: my father, an American volunteer fighting with Canada’s Black … Continue reading Norman Holiday<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,14,11,13],"tags":[23,15,17,16,24],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dieppe","category-family","category-painting","category-war","category-world-war-ii","tag-dieppe","tag-family-2","tag-painting-2","tag-war-2","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}