Resting on a beautiful bluff (at least today it's beautiful) above D-Day's Omaha Beach is probably the most famous American cemetery in Europe, located at Colleville-sur-mer. This is the one highlighted in Saving Private Ryan. Nearly 10,000 are buried here, many obviously from the first days of the invasion in June 1944. Like all the other U.S. cemeteries we've visited in Europe, this one is immaculately clean, well kept up, and serene. As it should be. Perhaps most touching for me and Lucie during our recent visit was seeing the number of non-U.S. visitors. I'd guess that no more than 10% of the 500 or so visitors we encountered there were from the States.
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