Weathers to attend 70th anniversary of D-Day landings

U.S. Army Sergeant First Class (SFC) Justin C. Weathers has been selected to participate in the ceremony honoring the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France Operation Overlord. The ceremony will be held at the National American Cemetery and Memorial overlooking the beaches where so many fought and died. SFC Weathers will represent some of the units that landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944.
Four of the units known to be sending 25 soldiers each to the event are as follows: 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) – landed at Omaha Beach; 4th Infantry Division (The Ivy Division) – landed at Utah Beach; 101st Airborne Division (The Screaming Eagles) – Parachute Assault and 82nd Airborne Division (The All American Division) – Parachute Assault – Saint Mere Eglise.
There were many units involved in Operation Overlord. Some units are no longer active and other units may be sending soldiers to this event. All the US Army Divisions that are still active, and participated in the D-Day invasion, will be sending 25 Soldiers each to the ceremony.
The ceremony will bring together world leaders such as President Barrack Obama, Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Ellington, and Russian President Vladimir Putin to mark the occasion.
 

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