Normandy American Cemetery

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  • Normandy American Cemetery sits on a bluff high above the coastline where the legendary D-Day beach landings of World War II took place.
    These hallowed grounds preserve the remains of nearly 9,400 Americans who died during the Allied liberation of France.
    Its memorial, a symbol of the indomitable spirit of American youth, is recognized the world over.
    Behind it, the names of over 1,500 service members whose remains have not been recovered are carved on the walls of the Garden of the Missing.
    The American Battle Monuments Commission honors America's fallen service members and their stories at 26 overseas cemeteries and 31 monuments.
    - Learn more about Normandy American Cemetery: www.abmc.gov/N...
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  • @m.celinegrogan4572
    @m.celinegrogan4572 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Visiting the American Cemetery in Normandy was one of the most profound moments of my life. I am humbled by the sacrifice of these selfless young heroes.

    • @navydoc6889
      @navydoc6889 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Much love from America!

  • @brianfarnell9833
    @brianfarnell9833 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    I’m here on Memorial Day 2024. Thank you to those who sacrificed for this great country the USA and for freedom in Europe and the world.

  • @TEXCAP
    @TEXCAP 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    45 Sets of brothers God Bless their mothers.

  • @michaelrichardson6051
    @michaelrichardson6051 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    My wife and I visited there in 2019. All the headstones face west, towards home.

  • @Sarge-R1
    @Sarge-R1 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    they gave their tomorrow for our today, god bless those brave men

  • @ThePierre58
    @ThePierre58 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    My Dad took me there in the 1960s, he was very quiet looking at these headstones. As a former British paratrooper, he had great respect for the fallen Americans who came over to free Europe of tyranny.

  • @karelmartel4969
    @karelmartel4969 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    God bless those brave men who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. Love and greetings from a Dutch family.

  • @coachwalrus3158
    @coachwalrus3158 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    What a beautiful setting for a beautiful memorial

  • @olsk0004
    @olsk0004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I get choked up watching this.

  • @remainfaithful5546
    @remainfaithful5546 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Excellent presentation. Thank you. Perfect for elementary students to view.

    • @usabmc
      @usabmc  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're very welcome!

  • @zuzannawisniewska4464
    @zuzannawisniewska4464 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I am 50 years old but I will always remember and respect our fallen Heroes there in France...from Chicago, Illinois.

  • @erpthompsonqueen9130
    @erpthompsonqueen9130 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you. Watching from Alaska.

  • @unemployicus
    @unemployicus 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    How far we have come, and fallen, since our greatest generation.

  • @patruhle4381
    @patruhle4381 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Hope to get there one day. Definetly high on my list.

  • @Nebuchadnezzar18
    @Nebuchadnezzar18 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Those guys are heros.
    The place looks immaculate. 🫡

  • @rickyouthpastor1
    @rickyouthpastor1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Thank you for making this excellent & honorable presentation. I commit to honor our fallen.

    • @usabmc
      @usabmc  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you!

  • @rebecca94503
    @rebecca94503 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    i was there yesterday. I wept for their sacrifice and the loss to the families of the lost; and then thanked them...I am here and I exist because of their sacrifice. Every American should see this memorial, it brings it all home.

  • @cameronh3775
    @cameronh3775 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I have walked this cemetery, and will always remember the sacrifice of these soldiers & there families.. Rendezvous with destiny soldiers forever!!

  • @tanyagithens
    @tanyagithens หลายเดือนก่อน

    I visited the cemetery with the Cub Scouts from Belgium. They walked from Pointe du Hoc to the American Cemetery. The Chapel is amazing and heart wrenching at the same time. There were many veterans walking the grounds. It was a humbling experience. 🇺🇸

  • @ChristinaWelch
    @ChristinaWelch ปีที่แล้ว +9

    it's beautiful, my uncle Leo is buried there. His plane was shot down July 12, 1944. 3 of his brothers (including my dad) were also in World War 2. Adolph, Walter and Edward. I can't imagine how my grandmother felt having 4 sons involved in that war. Heartbreaking I'm sure.

  • @normandiedevoirdememoire8737
    @normandiedevoirdememoire8737 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Eternal respect & Gratritude, We Will Never Forgotten, Rest In Peace

  • @kathrynrobertson7923
    @kathrynrobertson7923 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you for presenting this. May a merciful God help us prevent this from ever happening again. Just heart-breaking!

  • @jamesbond40987
    @jamesbond40987 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As the 80th anniversary of D-DAY is today, we will never forget D-Day, and what these great heroes sacrificed. We can never truly thank these heroes enough for their sacrifice. RIP heroes.

  • @Normandy1944
    @Normandy1944 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Humble is the man who pays his respects,
    Humble is the man who serves to honor those,
    Humble is the man who can kneel and ask those be remembered,
    ...for their sacrifice is ultimate...for they have no more tomorrows.

  • @Toulouke1
    @Toulouke1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    i visited this when i was 5- 6 years old. even at that age I understood what all those crosses meant. and i couldnt stop crying. the scale of the place is breath taking like no other

  • @chrisl7839
    @chrisl7839 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    They really were a great generation. I hope their fight against fascism won't be forgotten during our perilous times today.

  • @Hollywood6068
    @Hollywood6068 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Perfect for all Americans and all of the world to acknowledge! May they all RIP....their battle is over and their victory won...God bless them all....

  • @tuffsheddweller
    @tuffsheddweller 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    One of my bucket list locations to visit. I'm 100% going to be emotional visiting that sacred place.
    God rest the soul of these brave gentlemen

  • @ForvoQuizlet
    @ForvoQuizlet 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Enjoying these videos. Narrator sounds like the guy from the two-hour Lafayette Escadrille documentary.

  • @jleechadwick
    @jleechadwick 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I can't even begin to imagine what is was like for the parents of those 45 pairs of brothers. It would be hard enough losing one son, much less two of them at the same time. May they rest in peace.

    • @OGFrylock
      @OGFrylock 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They made the ultimate sacrifice. Without them BLM might not have been able to Express themselves.

  • @DianaKazimiera-
    @DianaKazimiera- ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great respect for honor, dignity, brave, loyalty 🪖
    Memory 🥀🕊️🕯️
    May the memory of great Heroes be eternal...
    BOWS!
    Thank you from 🇵🇱

  • @user-lx3kn7qh2t
    @user-lx3kn7qh2t 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    May God have mercy on the martyrs of the American army in Normandy

  • @Warboss_Thrakka_Snazzfingas
    @Warboss_Thrakka_Snazzfingas 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    i NEED to visit this location and pay my damn respects

  • @roydavidlivermore4664
    @roydavidlivermore4664 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    90 years old from the UK.One of the saddest places I have ever been. My second visit there.My dad landed there D+2.

  • @TheVectorman82
    @TheVectorman82 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I got to visit for the first wreath laying in person after covid, from ramstein. I was incredibly lucky to be here

  • @chriscarter5720
    @chriscarter5720 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Visited a few years back after seeing a memorial at a USAF airfield in the UK. As with all cemetaries from WW1 and WW2, British, French and American I was impressed by the care that is taken of the last resting place of these brave men. May they all rest in peace. Remembering particularly F/O Charles A Wambier and Capt Carl F Ekstrom, both of the 358th FS, both KIA December 30th 1943.

  • @massimilianopagliaruli705
    @massimilianopagliaruli705 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Lay me down in a cold cold ground where before many more have gone...

  • @cyrus..
    @cyrus.. 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    🙏🏻🕊👍🫡🪖🪂🇺🇲🇺🇲🗽💙🤍❤️
    ....hommage, honneur et souvenirs à nos libérateurs, à ces valeureux et courageux soldats qui ont sacrifiés leur vie pour délivrer ma belle Normandie et libérer ma douce France....merçi à eux leur sacrifice et pour notre liberté d'aujourd'hui...que Dieu les bénisse et soit toujours avec eux....merçi beaucoup pour avoir sauvé mes grands-parents qui ont permis à ma mère de naître en janvier 1945 sans qui je ne serais jamais venu au monde en 1963 et permettre à mes enfants de naître à leur tour en 1984 et 2005....ces courageux et valeureux soldats ont permis de vivre à plusieurs générations de ma famille....je leur serais toujours reconnaissant éternellement.....paix et gloire à eux...✝️🙏🏻🕊🗽🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🪂🪖🪂🪖🫡🫡🫡💙🤍❤️🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵💐🌹💐🌹💐🌹🫶🫶🫶🫶🙏🏻🕊✝️

  • @moosebreeder8774
    @moosebreeder8774 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    12 years ago, I visited Normandy American Cemetry with my school class. Back then, it gave me goosebumps. And so it's now watching this video.
    God bless all heroes who sacrificed their lives to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany.

  • @marcorp87
    @marcorp87 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "the land of the free and the home of the brave!"

  • @Markm-dy1gc
    @Markm-dy1gc ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Remember them

  • @jianyang457
    @jianyang457 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    RIP

  • @thabo4603
    @thabo4603 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    God bless USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @55seddel
    @55seddel 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have an ancestor buried there. My paternal grandparents named my dad after him, my father carrying his first name as his middle. I would like to visit and leave a penny to pay my respects but I do not know if that is ok. Would someone please let me know. Thank you!

    • @usabmc
      @usabmc  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We understand the meaning this would carry; however, we ask that visitors do not lay objects on the headstones as this can damage the marble. We invite you to contact our staff before you visit so they can assist you before and during your visit. You will find their contact information on our website: www.abmc.gov/normandy
      Please know that your relative's grave is well taken care of, and his sacrifice remembered.

  • @kimbradley9595
    @kimbradley9595 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    They were the greatest generation look at America now it's awful 😢😢😢 we know what is going on and we say nothing our country was always strong politics suck

  • @haitolawrence5986
    @haitolawrence5986 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    All of those courageous women charging out of the landing craft................................................

  • @AdamMencner-xn4rg
    @AdamMencner-xn4rg 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This Soldiers paid a High Price for DEMOKRATIE

  • @robertbolding4182
    @robertbolding4182 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I saw it in 1966, we were being kicked out by the french, only short 22 years after freeing them from the NAZI occupation. My dad wanted us to see all the dead that had died for the ungrateful french. just in case they never allowed visitors gain. anyway, it was peaceful then, we were the only ones there and the trees have really grown in 55 years. ill never step foot on French soil so help me god.

  • @nordiskkatt
    @nordiskkatt 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    How come all the headstones are crosses? Did none of them belong to religions other than Christianity?

    • @patrickmoore6407
      @patrickmoore6407 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There are probably some Stars Of David as well..just a guess on my part…

  • @CB-hp1zn
    @CB-hp1zn 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Must have went green 😮 , ouch

  • @johnivanquino806
    @johnivanquino806 ปีที่แล้ว

    🪖🪖😢😢