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    Government shutdown spreads to beaches of Normandy

    Gov’t shutdown spreads to beaches of Normandy

    By Associated Press
    October 2, 2013 | 9:02am
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    The D-Day invasion is remembered at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial which has been closed because of the government shutdown.
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    PARIS — Tourists travelling to Omaha Beach to pay their respects to the 9,387 military dead at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial will find it closed, a victim of the U.S. government’s partial shutdown.

    The site overlooking the D-Day invasion beaches is one of 24 U.S. military cemeteries overseas that have closed to visitors since Monday. Ten more cemeteries in France, as well as others in various European countries as well as Mexico, Panama, Tunisia and the Philippines, will remain closed for the duration of the shutdown.

    The cemeteries are maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission, set up after the First World War. Nearly 125,000 U.S. servicemen and women are buried at its cemeteries, and an additional 94,000 are commemorated on tablets of the missing.

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    For an administration that has openly dissed the military, I am not surprised that this would happen.

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