Sainte Mere Eglise has never forgotten that Freedom arrived out of the night sky, nor the ultimate price paid by the paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st American Airborne Divisions and by the soldiers who came down by gliders on D-Day. Thousands of soldiers were buried in the three temporary cemeteries between 1944 and 1948. Since then, our collective memory has continued to commemorate them from generation to generation. One just has to walk out our streets and country lanes to see that this event is still very present in daily life.
