Bronze
American soldier sculptures,
mock tetrahedra known as "hedgehogs"
during World War II and the
Reflecting Pool depict the
Normandy landing at Omaha
Beach at the National D-Day
Memorial in Bedford, Va.
PRESIDENT
BUSH'S SPEECH CONTINUED:
"We have many World War II and
D-Day veterans with us today, and
we're honored by your presence. We
appreciate your example, and thank
you for coming. And let it be recorded
we're joined by one of the most distinguished
of them all — a man who arrived
at Normandy by glider with the 82nd
Airborne Division; a man who serves
America to this very hour. Please
welcome Major General Strom Thurmond.
"You have raised a fitting memorial
to D-Day, and you have put it in just
the right place — not on a battlefield
of war, but in a small Virginia town,
a place like so many others that was
home to the men and women who helped
liberate a continent. [ speech
continued . . . ]
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