Nice D Day Memorial Present For This Family

They got a wonderful surprise on this celebration of the the largest land,sea, and air operation in history: the invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944. which this soldier gave his life for the liberation of France and then Europe, as did tens of thousands of selfless others that fateful day and then throughout the remainder of the Allied victory that literally saved the world from Fascism.

D-Day Soldier's Dog Tag Found in Sand -

washingtonpost.com: "HUNTINGDON, Tenn. -- The family of Pvt. William Bernice Clark never had a funeral for him, never got to say goodbye and never really accepted his fate among the fallen during the Normandy D-Day landings in World War II.

That was until the young soldier's dog tag, recently discovered in the sands of Omaha Beach in France, was returned to his native Tennessee on Wednesday _ exactly 63 years after that tragic day."This feels like an ending," said the soldier's first cousin, 79-year-old Lota Park, who along with another cousin accepted the dog tag at a ceremony in the small town of Huntingdon, about 90 miles west of Nashville.

The tag has blackened with age, but his name, identification number, religion (Protestant) and blood type (Type O) are all clearly visible. read more

The US Memorial to D Day in Bedford City Virginia, Located in the town suffering the highest per capita D-Day losses in the nation

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