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

At 100 years old, WWII veteran Bernie Smoot still drives his convertible Ford Mustang to play golf five days a week, shoots in the low 80s and shares wisdom from 74 years in the game: “You live to play golf. But to reach my age, you play golf to live.”

To celebrate Bernie — who… pic.twitter.com/Q1KkGIv0E0

— PGA of America (@PGA) May 25, 2026