Jun 29, 2020

Normandy Cemetery

At the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, French caretakers take the sand from Omaha Beach and scrub them into the letters to give them the brown/gold coloring as a method of remembering the names as they often get washed out being engraved into bright white stone. One user said the sand does not last all too long, but it is more about the intent than the result.

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