75th D-Day Anniversary: I visited the independent "National D-Day Memorial" in Virginia last year. The National D-Day Memorial is a war memorial located in Bedford, Virginia. It serves...

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I visited the independent "National D-Day Memorial" in Virginia last year. The National D-Day Memorial is a war memorial located in Bedford, Virginia. It serves as the national memorial for American D-Day veterans.

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ggab Loc: ?

I visited the independent "National D-Day Memorial" in Virginia last year. The National D-Day Memorial is a war memorial located in Bedford, Virginia. It serves as the national memorial for American D-Day veterans.

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Sunnely Loc: Wisconsin

ggab wrote:

I visited the independent "National D-Day Memorial" in Virginia last year. The National D-Day Memorial is a war memorial located in Bedford, Virginia. It serves as the national memorial for American D-Day veterans.

Please be free to add your images.

Thanks for sharing your photos to memorialize the Heroes of Bedford, Va.

Allow me to add a fast fact about this small town of Virginia---

Thirty-four Virginia National Guard soldiers from the town of Bedford were part of D-Day. Nineteen of them were killed during the first day of the invasion, and four more died during the rest of the Normandy campaign. The town and the "Bedford Boys" had proportionately suffered the greatest losses of the campaign, thus inspiring the United States Congress to establish the D-Day memorial in Bedford.[3][4]

The "Bedford Boys" included three sets of brothers: twins Roy and Ray Stevens, with Ray killed during the landing while Roy survived, Clyde and Jack Powers, with Jack killed and Clyde wounded but surviving, and Bedford and Raymond Hoback, both killed.[5]

The losses by the soldiers from Bedford were chronicled in the best-selling book The Bedford Boys by Alex Kershaw, and helped inspire the movie Saving Private Ryan.[6] The movie's director, Steven Spielberg, helped fund the memorial, including funding for the creation of the Arnold M. Spielberg Theater, in honor of his father, a World War II veteran.[7]
--From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_D-Day_Memorial

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/06/d-day-bedford-virginia-marks-75th-anniversary-big-way/1364825001/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/06/bedford-va-lost-men-d-day-seventy-five-years-later-toll-still-echoes/?utm_term=.6cf5717f5077

ggab Loc: ?

Sunnely wrote:

Thanks for sharing your photos to memorialize the ... (show quote)

Thank you for the "fast facts".
I only had a few hours the day I was here last year. I was frankly overwhelmed deciding what to take pictures of and what to leave to another day.

Sunnely Loc: Wisconsin

ggab wrote:

Thank you for the "fast facts".
I only had a few hours the day I was here last year. I was frankly overwhelmed deciding what to take pictures of and what to leave to another day.

Again, thanks for sharing your photos.

The "Bedford Boys," along with the other young and brave soldiers who gave their ultimate sacrifice in defense of our FREEDOM, are indeed Our Fallen Heroes. (With lump in throat.)

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Amen!