Every year in France, there's a ceremony that rarely makes headlines.

Ordinary people and families collect sand from Omaha Beach — where Americans lost 2,400 lives on D-Day.

Then, they use it to fill in the letters on their tombstones of the fallen.

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— Goodable (@Goodable) June 8, 2020