Bedford has the National D-Day Memorial, dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the men who landed on D-Day, on June 6, 1944, and fought in the hedgerows of Normandy that summer.
France, in turn, hosts 15,000 graves of American soldiers who died in that fighting. There, a French organization called Association Les Fleurs de la Memoire, is dedicated to keeping the memory alive by regularly placing flowers on these graves.