If the American military says The always bring our boys back home, why are there so many american war graves in Europe?

Europeans, especially the French, need to be constantly reminded of the huge sacrifices made by the American Armed forces and in particular the US Army, in being part of the of and leading the D-Day Assault on the Beaches of Normandie.

The true was never told at the time, but we later learned that some 10,000 American soldiers died just getting on to Omaha Beach which was being raked by Nazi machine gun fire, none stop all day long.

The beach scenes in Saving Private Ryan are as authentic as possible - the audio was produced shooting bullets into beef carcases - horrible as it might be, it gives the sound of bullets hitting flesh.

US War Graves Normandy

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We Will Remember Them

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Old Soldier British Army 1957-1965 (age 15 to 24) now 75

There are 124,905 overseas. Total KIA in WWII was 456,000. The total for WWI was 53,000 KIA 116,000 total. Keep in mind many died from illness in all wars. Korea had 33,000. Most were returned to the US. Part of the issue was the families not wanting them returned for some reason, no family to return to. I suspect some could not afford a grave close by so just had them remain overseas....just a guess on that.

dead bodies can carry disease and it's best they are buried immediately......especially in the conditions of the day Sheer volume and numbers were also a problem. And some families thought they should be buried where they fought and died, to remind those people of the sacrifice these Americans made for them.

I have been to many oveaseas burial grounds for Americans and allied troops and they are often better looked after and cared for than our own. SOME countries, have NOT forgotten the sarcrifices. .....and the bsattlefields are Hallowed sacred ground.

Couldn't do it in the old days because they mostly used ships, so the bodies would be in bad and smelly shape by the time they returned home some weeks later.

What would the military be without pride? Sure, the claim is nonsense but it stiffens the backbones of those in or going into combat. If you have never been in combat, you don't know what it's like.

So yes it is brag or boast or bull, Would it be better to say "We will leave your guts and bones where they lie."

At the end of WWII, family members of the war dead were given the option of having their loved one's remains brought back to the US or interred in an overseas military cemetery. Many of those buried in overseas cemeteries were the result of that family choice, while others who remain are either the unknowns or the unclaimed (no locatable or surviving family).

Instead of spouting troll BS, maybe you ought to visit a military cemetery, either in the US or overseas. You'd find that the fallen are treated with respect and honor, and are cared for by the American Battle Monuments Commission.

It's usually easier to bury American war dead in Europe than to bring them back. There are plenty of wargraves in Iwo Jima and Okinawa too during World War II.

Any idea as to how many men died in WW I and WW II? That's why. Planes were used for more important things than dead bodies. They were not flying modern day jet aircraft.

Ships were in constant danger of being sunk and they brought supplies and moved troops, not the dead.

The correct saying is "we always bring them back."

Their are graves all over Europe because we helped save Europe from the Germans twice in one century and back then it was much more sanitary and humane to bury them there than to ship their corpses home on a boat.

Couldn't do it in the old days because they mostly used ships, so the bodies would be in bad and smelly shape by the time they returned home some weeks later.