Valor, Fidelity, Sacrifice - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

The National D-Day Memorial exists to honor the Valor, Fidelity, and Sacrifice of the Allied Forces on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the qualities giving this allegorical sculpture its name. The soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, coast guardsmen, and merchant seamen it represents did nothing more than what they took to be their duty. They kept faith with the Alliance, their homelands, the chain of command, the mission, their units, and their fellows. It cost them comfort, safety, innocence, youth, blood - even life itself.

Valor, Fidelity, Sacrifice,gives homage not only to those who died on D-Day but also to those who lived to secure the beachhead and carry freedom inland, and to those who transported the ground forces by air and sea, delivered their aerial and naval support, and provided their combat and combat-support services. D-Day's success owes an incalculable debt to its participants. That you yourself are free and here today is but a portion of their rich and enduring legacy.

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In Memory of Staff Sgt. Isak Nygaard, 774th Tank Destroyer Battalion, and Bernice Thomas Nygaard
Given by their family on Memorial Day, 1999

Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Valor, Fidelity, Sacrifice Figure Type: Human Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 05/31/1999 Materials used: bronze Location: National D-Day Memorial Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Not listed

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