War graves

My wife and I, and two other couples, in September visited the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, located on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach. It holds the graves of 9,388 American soldiers killed on D-Day, June 7, 1944, and during the days that followed as Allied troops pushed into France. 

Ten thousand words couldn’t possibly begin to convey the overwhelming experience of visiting it as effectively as the opening scene of Stephen Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, in which a D-Day survivor visits the cemetery fifty years later, and only one word is uttered. 

Whatever plans you have for your Memorial Day weekend, I hope you’ll take three minutes and fifty seconds to watch the clip below, and to be grateful.