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17K views · 48K reactions | At the Normandy American Cemetery in France, the French take sand from the Normandy beaches where the allies landed and spread the sand into the letters on the headstones. The sand gives the names and dates their golden brown color. This is done for all 9,000+ headstones.  #memorialday | Fallen Yet Not Forgotten | Facebook

Omaha Beach, today Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center Colleville-sur-Mer « Sixty-three years after Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to turn the tide of World War II in Europe, a new visitor center at the Normandy American Cemetery in France opened in May 2007 to tell the story of the 9,387 Americans buried there and put the D-Day landings and follow-on battle in Europe in perspective as one of the greatest military achievements of all time. One-third of the building’s 30,000