The D-Day Memorial in the United States is near a small town in the State of Virginia.
Among the troops landing on Omaha Beach in the first wave was a unit formed from the Army National Guard from around the town of Bedford.
That unit took 95% casualties during the first ten minutes of the landing.
It was said that every family in the Bedford area lost someone on that beach.
Each year....the gallantry and sacrifice of those of all Nations that day are honored and given respect.
That is as it should be.
There is a fine book about that Battalion of Infantry called "The Bedford Boys"