What Virginians’ and Americans’ D-Day sacrifices teach us about our country now

By: Jim Spencer

Outlets: Virginia Mercury

Published: June 5, 2026

Words: 1,101

Last Updated: 6 days, 20 hours ago

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NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY, COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, FRANCE- Richard Powhatan Hall’s grave sits nine rows into the vast final resting place of 9,400 U.S. soldiers who lost their lives in the 1944 D-Day invasion. Hall, a man from Virginia’s Albemarle County, was killed in action June 6, 1944 at Omaha Beach, a few hundred yards from where he is buried.

He died at 26 fighting fascism.

Hall was among 184 Virginians who gave their lives to …

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