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Summer 2019 at the Barn

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Summer 2019 at the Barn Mailly Le Camp, St Pere, Vezelay Barn Biking Tour de France Stage 10--St Flour to Albi, passing through Espalion (the caravan live, the race on tv, with a good lunch, dessert, and coffee) Click on any photo to see them in large, scrollable format. Mally Le Camp My respected and beloved college professor, Robert L. Peters, was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1943.  He was a foot soldier in - but was no fighting man.  Last year, I obtained a copy of his  For You, Lili Marlene:  A Memoir of World War II .  In it, he recounted his journey from his family's Wisconsin farm to boot camp, shipping off to England, and eventual deployment in France.  He spent a portion of the war stationed at Mailly Le Camp, between Reims and Troyes in northeastern France.  I was familiar with the name from my frequent travels between Belgium and the Aveyron.  On this trip, I stopped in Mailly Le Camp to have a look at the location he wrote about.  Of course, it is much