Trail Seasoning

If I were to ask you how many American military cemeteries there are in Europe, how many could you name?  More than likely, Normandy would be the one to come to mind.  It’s the cemetery that marks one of the greatest battles of WWII and the beginning of the eastern march towards Germany by the allied forces. It’s the one we hear about in school and it is often the center of war documentaries and movies.   After all, we have all seen Saving Private Ryan.  And rightly so, Normandy is a stunningly beautiful cemetery that sits high on a bluff, overlooking the English Channel.  It was the first American cemetery in Europe during WWII. 

What if I told you there were actually 22 American Military Cemeteries in Europe, 8 from WWI and 14 from WWII and in those cemeteries, there are over 104,000 burials and over 20,000 listed as missing in action.