One of the most interesting and memorable memorial that I’ve been to is the Normandy American D-Day Memorial which is the memorial for the American lives lost during one of the deadliest American battles in WWII. On June 6th 1944, the largest amphibious invasion took place on the coast of France. A total of 4,414 Allied troops were killed on D-Day itself, including 2,501 Americans. More than 5,000 were wounded. One part of the memorial that stood out to me was the Normandy American Cemetery and the rows of headstones. It was established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 as the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. It contains the graves of 9,387 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. Another part of the memorial that stands out is the Wall of Missing’s. There are nearly 1600 people on the wall and only 19 of those have been identified. This stuck with me because the families of soldiers must have been extremally saddened and curious about what happened to their loved one. I could never imagine having to live with the thought that someone I loved has no records after joining the war.