More than 9,000 Americans are buried here overlooking the beaches where the invasion began.

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces came ashore along the Normandy coast in the largest seaborne invasion in history. Many never made it home.

The cemetery was not built to celebrate victory. It was built to remember the cost.

Every cross. Every name. Every family forever changed by a day that began before dawn.

And that is the story behind the place.