Luxembourg American Cemetery Memorial

We visited the Luxembourg American Cemetery Memorial, a cemetery contains over 5,000 American soldiers who died in WWII. Some of the families of the soldiers wanted their bodies returned to the U.S., but some wanted them to be buried in the country they gave their life to protect. It’s the second group that are buried here.

General George S. Patton used the city of Luxembourg as headquarters. This is inside the building you see behind Alison in the first photo.

We saw several names of soldiers from Minnesota who gave their life for freedom.

You can see the image above with a map showing the Allied battles as they fought the Nazi party.

This quote was inside the memorial and was a reminder, especially as followers of Jesus, that we must content against evil and make no peace with oppression, even if it costs us our very life.