Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend pic.twitter.com/wkPLggj8Rm

— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) May 25, 2026

16m clip - Germany Is Digging Tons of Sand from the Baltic Sea Bottom, in 5 Years It Will Change Everything

3min 21sec clip - The World Is Slowly Running Out Of Sand

2min 27sec @TheEconomist clip - Why is #sand in short #supply ?

Text from youtube "The world uses 40 billion tonnes of sand each year to build cities and towns, but global reserves are running low. We find out why."