We best honor the memory ... by striving for peace, that the terror of the days of war will be with us no more.   FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

A year after the D-Day invasion, peace had been won but at an enormous expense in lives lost.  Military personnel from every nation that had participated in the Normandy battles and civilians by the thousands joined in to commemorate the men who had died there.  In the are of Ste. Mere Eglise alone, no less than nine temporary cemeteries had been constructed even as the war raged around them.  It would take another three years before the Colleville-sur-Mer facility would be made into the consolidated permanent cemetery that we know today.