The Michigan football team participates in a ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery, U.S. soldiers who died during the D-Day landings lie.
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — It's near impossible to understand and it's beyond difficult to put in perspective.
But standing near a beach in Normandy, with rain spraying and wind whipping through the air, the weight of what happened here 73 years ago hits awfully hard.
Like so many people, I had a relative who fought in World War II. My late grandfather, William Baumgardner Sr., wasn't one of the soldiers who hit a beach near Normandy on June 6, 1944.