SEE IT: How The French Care For American Graves At Normandy
By Virginia Kruta
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May 29, 2023 DailyWire.com
Every year, French caretakers spend hours preparing the grave markers at the American cemetery in Normandy — nearly 10,000 of them.
In the United States, citizens spend Memorial Day remembering and honoring the service members who paid the ultimate price for the freedoms and liberties the rest of us enjoy – but for those who never made it home, some of the host nations do what they can to honor the Americans who fell defending them.
In Normandy, for example, some citizens routinely bring sand from D-Day’s most brutal landing site — Omaha Beach — and use it to darken the names and dates inscribed in the otherwise plain white marble crosses that cover the landscape.
https://twitter.com/DannyDeraney/status/1663234994964402176The tradition was begun by French soldiers and has been carried through the years by locals and visiting family members, who often do the sand-scrubbing just before the anniversary of the D-Day invasion – but for Memorial Day, each grave is marked with both an American flag and a French flag. The land where those soldiers were buried may be located in France, but it is considered American soil.
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