BEDFORD, Va. (WDBJ) – Communities can help save lives and support the National D-Day Memorial by giving blood Saturday. The Blood Connection’s Bloodmobile is returning to the Memorial from 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.
The Blood Connection will donate $10 for each blood donation collected to the Memorial.
National D-Day Memorial Director of Education John Long said there’s a special connection between blood donations and D-Day. During World War II, blood donations were vitally important. Medics landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, with bottles of blood and plasma…