Nearly a century later, when the Civil War came, the bloodiest chapter in our national story, many of its chapters were also written in Virginia. In the Second World War, Virginia sent her sons and daughters to North Africa, to Poland, to the Philippines, and of course, to Normandy. It was in Normandy that 19 young men from the town of Bedford landed on the beaches of of Normandy on D Day, June 6, 1944, and perished there. (02:57–03:07)
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Asserts that Virginians served in multiple locations during World War II.
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