re: Visiting Arlington National Cemetery this week.

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nd the Normandy cemetery where the D-day casualties are buried to be more impactful. I suppose bc Arlington has a lot of people who died peacefully at an old age. While Normandy, these were all young guys violently cut down in the prime of their lives, most of them not famous. And most probably died before even knowing if the invasion was even a success.

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I'll agree that Normandy is a lot more impactful. I first went when I was 23 and hit me hard that I had already lived longer that most buried there.

The Luxembourg cemetery where Patton is buried is also humbling. I went just to see his grave but was more in awe of the fact that there 1000's of Americans buried there then there is a large German cemetary about 1/2 mile away

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I found the Normandy cemetery where the D-day casualties are buried to be more impactful.

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Two of Teddy Roosevelts sons are buried there. Quentin was a pilot in WW1 and was shot down. Teddy Jr was a General who was a MOH recipient and died in France about a month after the landings (also had some clashes with Patton and Omar Bradley concerning his style of command).