📍 Steal my Bedford Blue Ridge, VA Weekend Itinerary ➡️ Planned and tested by a DMV local who loves the outdoors 😉 FRIDAY NIGHT 🚗 Drive to @peaksofotterfarmstay and check in SATURDAY 🥾 Hike Sharp Top Mountain, grab breakfast with lake mountain views, and hang out with the farm animals 🍏 Stop at @grossorchard for apple picking fresh cider 🇺🇸 Visit the National D-Day Memorial 🥩 Dinner at @oldelibertystation (historic train station turned restaurant) SUNDAY 🍃 Stop by Natural Bridge State Pa

1.7K views · 76 reactions | The National D-Day Memorial is located in Bedford, Virginia because the small town suffered perhaps the nation's worst proportional D-Day losses: 19 men. The Library of Congress Veterans History Project interviewed Bob Slaughter, D-Day Memorial Foundation founder and D-Day survivor, in 2001. More D-Day stories from VHP: https://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/onthebeach.html?loclr=fbloc | The Library of Congress | Facebook