Just Cruises Plus

American tourists visiting the Normandy Cemetery and Memorial in France were greeted with a chained gate and a sign that read, “Due to the U.S. Government shut-down, this site is closed to the public”.  Many had planned their visits to relative’s graves for months and were outraged that they were prevented from paying their respects.

Each year, thousands of Americans visit the site of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, which took place on June 6^th 1944.  Several thousand American servicemen died in a single day of intense fighting on the beaches and cliffs at Normandy.  There are row upon row of Crosses and Stars of David over the graves of those who made the ultimate sacrifice.