The 82nd Anniversary of D-Day will be observed in a special ceremony at 11am at the National D-Day Memorial.

Memorial hours are 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on June 6 with free admission all day. Guided tours will begin at 1 p.m. Ceremony guests are encouraged to bring a chair. No coolers or food in the plaza. No pets (service dogs welcome). Visit dday.org for full event information and to view the live stream of the ceremony.

The keynote speaker will be Drew Dix, the first Special Forces Medal of Honor recipient. Throughout the day, guests can also experience living historians, book signings, special displays, and more. The evening concludes with a musical performance by Letters from Home and a showing of When We Went In: The D-Day Experience in Light and Sound. This was created for the National D-Day Memorial by the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology at Virginia Tech and is an immersive nighttime presentation that transforms the Memorial’s grounds into a stunning, multi-media sensory experience, bringing the story of D-Day to life.

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