Did anyone else see the PBS docu, tonight, called Hallowed Grounds?. It was very educational, emotional, well done. Here's a little bit of the blurb:

Many people are aware of the famous American military cemetery at Omaha Beach, Normandy, site of one of the D-Day landings in 1944. But few know there are twenty-one other American military cemeteries in eight different countries memorializing those who were not brought back to the United States after World War I and World War II. Each of these commemorative places is powerful and unique, and has its own story to tell.

These cemeteries, created and maintained by the U.S. government through the American Battle Monuments Commission, are permanent memorial sites, built to stand the test of time. Collectively they contain the remains of 125,000 Americans. There are 94,000 more names commemorated on Walls of the Missing. Dignified and serene, they were created to honor America's fallen, but they are also intended to inspire and teach the living.

You may watch the video on that site and read more. The thing that really got to me was how it seems to me a lot of us are very ignorant of these cemeteries, other than the most famous, yet time after time, they showed natives of the countries where our dead are buried, going there, even sixty years later, and honouring our war dead for bringing them freedom. Their schoolchildren are taught to never forget.

Some of it was a little glorified in rhetoric, but it was a very moving program, regardless. I am glad I watched it.