D-Day 80th anniversary: Fallen remembered with 1,475 silhouette statues

British servicemen who were killed on D-Day will be remembered through a series of handmade silhouette statues.
Artist Dan Barton has led a team of volunteers on the For Your Tomorrow project, which features 1,475 silhouettes as Sky's Daniel Henry explains.
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[@hansmelbye1804]

D-Day should be a national holiday; this historical event is so significant that it should never be forgotten.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

The Battle of Britain was more important to us British and more fitting for a national holiday.
The Germans were already losing and in retreat well before D-Day.

[@philipsquire9056]

I hadn't realised each one is different. That's fantastic.

[@T5Zplayer]

Brilliant idea. Now we need schools to place this day in their calendars to show our kids what sacrifice was made.

[@jetrex1986]

Seen them a few weeks ago in France.

[@PAB86]

I was looking at some of my home town war records from ww1 and ww2 and 3 brothers died together on the same day in the same battle under the same gun fight, also that day where those 3 brothers parents lived their next door neibour's son also got killed same day in a different warzone... i sat and just thought about the pain that street must have felt that day.... at ease hero's r.i.p

[@lw3646]

Fighting in Normandy was the bloodiest the US and UK faced in WWII I believe. Not so much the beaches but the French countryside, the hedgerows were ideal cover.

[@PAS_2020]

The end of an era…

[@NoWindNoSunNoPower]

Teach this in schools, not black history month.

[@jamesbond91615]

Already being taught in schools

[@danielmartin7838]

Men of the west; what we have, what our forefathers created is worth fighting for. It deserves our love, protection and admiration.
Happy Easter

[@themrs410]

❤

[@robertcreighton4635]

It must have been scary being a soldier storming the beaches of Normandy.
But it must have been even more terrifying being a crab or seagull.

[@T5Zplayer]

Stupid and childish comment

[@gavinsmith9564]

Never again, we need to rejoin the EU peace project, and work together again as soon as possible.

[@coolcat6103]

There is no EU peace project!!

[@RAMBOIT.]

Yes we need to rejoin the eu

[@RAMBOIT.]

​@@rightherethereeverywheredon't talk utter rubbish

[@RAMBOIT.]

Dont care