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#OnThisDay June 6, 1944, West Point grads helped lead the D-Day invasion. That same day, the Class of 1944, “The D-Day Class” graduated. We remember their sacrifice, service, and impact on the battlefield and beyond. #WestPoint #WWII
Read more: https://t.co/KgFW1En8mf pic.twitter.com/h2NuuSb8jk

— West Point AOG (@WPAOG) June 6, 2025

It's the 81st anniversary of #DDay.

French caretakers take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil.

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— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) June 6, 2025

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