Memorial Day 2022 Commemoration
National D-Day Memorial 3 Overlord Circle, Bedford, VA, United Stateshttps://vimeo.com/712872445
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78th Anniversary of D-Day Commemoration
National D-Day Memorial 3 Overlord Circle, Bedford, VA, United Stateshttps://vimeo.com/715279514
Veterans Day 2022 Ceremony
Bedford Moose Lodge #1897 2986 W Lynchburg Salem Tpke, Bedford, VA, United Stateshttps://vimeo.com/717564132
Lunchbox Lecture: British Normandy Memorial with Liam O’Connor
Bobbie G. Johnson Pavilion National D-Day Memorial 3 Overlord Circle, Bedford, VA, United StatesMore than 75 years after the D-Day landings, there is finally a British Normandy Memorial. Commemorating 22,442 servicemembers who lost their lives serving under British command on D-Day and in the battle of Normandy, the memorial takes its place just a few miles east of the American Memorial at Omaha Beach. It overlooks the Normandy coastline where the D-Day landings took place at the beach codenamed Gold Beach. Liam O’Connor, architect of the British Normandy Memorial, will talk about its design, inspiration, and significance. O’Connor has an international reputation for high quality buildings and landscapes in a contemporary classical idiom. He...
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Memorial Day 2023 Commemoration
National D-Day Memorial 3 Overlord Circle, Bedford, VA, United Stateshttps://vimeo.com/769959994 Keynote Speaker Rear Adm. Michael J. Steffen and Special Guest Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears Rear Adm. Michael J. Steffen Keynote speaker Rear Adm. Michael J. Steffen is a native of Bedford, Virginia, and a 1992 graduate of Virginia Tech. He was commissioned through the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets in conjunction with the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program and designated a naval aviator in 1994. He also holds a Master of Science in Global Business Leadership from the University of San Diego. His sea duty tours include serving with Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS-4) “Black Knights”, deploying...