BEDFORD, Va. (WSET) — As America marks 250 years of freedom, a powerful part of that story lives in Bedford, Virginia: the National D-Day Memorial
Over the past 25 years, sharp cracks have split the stillness of the sacred grounds of this memorial. They sound ominously like live rifle rounds that pierced the water and haunted young Americans on June 6, 1944.
D-Day was a critical turning point of World War II. The operation marked the beginning of the liberation of France and Western Europe, paving the way for the Allied victory on the Western Front. It remains the largest amphibious military invasion in history…