# D-Day Cemetery at Omaha Beach

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-day-cemetery-at-omaha-beach/584586>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 7, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-day-cemetery-at-omaha-beach/584586 "2011-06-07T02:38:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-day-cemetery-at-omaha-beach/584586/1 "2011-06-07T02:38:06Z")

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For any of you interested in the events that started 57 years ago today, take a look at one of the American Miltary cemeteries on very expensive real estate, at Colleville-sur-Mer, France. It was one of the most humbling sights I have seen in my life, just after I ended my US Navy active duty, in France, 45 years ago.

https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=american%2Bmilitary%2Bcemetery%2Bst%2Blaurent%2Bsur%2Bmer%2Bfrance&aq=&sll=49.370329,-0.87846&sspn=0.000741,0.002406&ie=UTF8&hq=american%2Bmilitary%2Bcemetery&hnear=Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer,%2BCalvados,%2BLower%2BNormandy,%2BFrance&ll=49.359884,-0.853908&spn=0.002963,0.009624&t=h&z=17

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**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-day-cemetery-at-omaha-beach/584586/2 "2011-06-07T03:35:23Z")

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Wow … I didn’t realize at first that there were dozens of photographs linked to the map. Thanks for sharing this.

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-day-cemetery-at-omaha-beach/584586/3 "2011-06-07T04:38:47Z")

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D-Day - June 6, 1944 - 67 years ago.

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**Author:** ![bahia\_hombre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@bahia\_hombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahia_hombre)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-day-cemetery-at-omaha-beach/584586/4 "2011-06-08T02:52:46Z")

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I was there when I traveled to Europe…it is very moving. Hearing the carillon play the national anthem on the hour made me quite verklempt.

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-day-cemetery-at-omaha-beach/584586/5 "2011-06-08T06:08:47Z")

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I hope one day that I can travel to the D-Day cemeteries. Here are links to a few of the others that honour those participants who went on D-Day and who never came home:

[Bény-sur-Mer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9ny-sur-Mer_Canadian_War_Cemetery) (Canadian)

[Bretteville-sur-Laize](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretteville-sur-Laize_Canadian_War_Cemetery) (Canadian)

[Hermanville War Cemetery](http://www.battlefieldsww2.50megs.com/hermanville_war_cemetery.htm) (British)