D-Day 80 Years: Continuing to Honor Their Sacrifices

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The nation was newly at war on Memorial Day weekend in 2004, an uncertain era inaugurated by the terrorist attacks of September 11. Still, on May 29, the sitting president of the United States and two of his predecessors sat in the open air on the National Mall, before a vast crowd of U.S. military veterans and their families, to dedicate the National World War II Memorial.