I think I may have posted this before. But if you're in the vicinity of Ft. Liberty (formerly Ft Bragg, but General Bragg wore the wrong color uniform in the Civil War) take the time to visit the 82d Airborne Museum. One very simple yet striking display is an urn of earth from Ste. Mere Eglise, the first town in France to be liberated. (That's where Red Buttons dangled from his parachute in "The Longest Day"). Free soil from free French citizens after the long night of German occupation.