![]() The National D-Day Memorial is set on 20 magnificent acres that contain a huge amphitheater with a mock of the Omaha landing with brass bodies strewn in water while air jets loudly spray the staccato sounds and effects of machine gun fire through the water. and busts of the planners and leaders who saw the Allies to and through that horrific and eventually victorious day. ![]() and hundreds of brass plaques emblazoned with the names of every American killed on D-Day. ![]() is celebrated in a series of plaques - and one for every destroyer, transport, carrier. Every regiment, battalion and division from every country that participated on D-Day on every one of the beachheads - Juno, Omaha, Gold. Others will blog today on the operational facts of D-Day and the meaning of D-Day and its (obvious) significance to the outcome of the war - all of which the D-Day Memorial covers in detail - but I will share the moving experience the National D-Day Memorial provided.
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