(Share Cast Memorial Day) The Spirit Works In Weakness (Zach 4:6; Luke 1:35)
This cemetery is in Normandy, France where the legendary D-Day beach landings took place. On June 6th 1944, 4000 soldiers were killed here. Now this site is a memorial to the Americans who died fighting for the liberation of Europe from the Nazi war machine. Today the Normandy American Cemetery, sited on a bluff high above the coast, is one of the world’s best-known military memorials.These grounds preserve the remains of nearly 9,400 Americans who died during the Allied liberation of France. But there is another cemetery that is even larger, known as the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, located in France near the village of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon. It is a World War I cemetery containing the graves of nearly 14,250 war dead and nearly 1,000 names on the Walls of the Missing. The cemetery is the largest American military cemetery in Europe and is located about 150 miles northeast of Paris. Cemeteries mark the Memorial Day activities in our country. But we know that soldiers have died all over the world fighting in wars that their country enlisted them to fight for. As we remember Americans who have died, let us also take time today to realize how many grieving families there are in our modern war zones of Ukraine and Gaza. Let us pray for these who have died as well today,
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