Our destination just south of Grafton was the brand new National Memorial of Military Ascent, which commemorates the Army Rangers who climbed up the 100 foot cliff at Pointe du Hoc on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Grafton is the perfect location for the memorial with its cliffs left from quarrying that began in the Nineteenth Century.

You can read the story of the day on the commemorative stone near the entrance.