Every year in France, there's a ceremony that rarely makes headlines.— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 8, 2020
Ordinary people & families collect sand from Omaha Beach — where Americans lost 2,400 lives on D-Day.
Then, they use it to fill in the letters on their tombstones of the fallen.🌎❤️🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/Am7B8jEASu
They are of no use to the dead.
What a beautiful tradition this is.
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