Because our museum was originally founded back in the 1990s as the National Dday museum. By a congressional charter, we would charge telling the story of the entire american experience. In this gallery we get to the big moment where United States and allies had to win this particular day. Dday june 6, 1944. Behind me is our film narratedded by narrated by tom brokaw. This is an exhibit case, a long thin line of language column. Ernie pile, walked the beaches at normandy. Where the American Forces landed. And he saw big everything from war, left over by troops who had been killed on the beach. What we have in this case, is artifacts, and send from utah and omaha beaches. Pile writes about what he found. You can see he talk about shoe polish, showing kids diaries, bibles, hand grenades, toothbrushes razors. He particularly singles out in his column writing paper. He talks about how young men who gave their lives at normandy, intended to write a lot of letters back home. The other thing t