Anonymous ID: 296568 July 27, 2022, 5:37 p.m. No.16868630   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1218

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On this day 78 years ago, 156,000 soldiers landed in Normandy to liberate France during WWII.

 

Every year, French soldiers take sand from Omaha Beach and rub it onto the gravestones to give the letters a gold coloring.

 

They do this for all 9,386 American soldiers buried there.

A Beautiful French Tradition

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