On June 4th 2012 in relation to what the area, the county, it’s population and the soldiers that came through the village,  Sainte-Marie du Mont will hold a religious ceremony in rememberance of what happened almost 68 years ago, at Utah/Sainte-Marie du Mont.

Starts at 09.30 am

At 10.30 am there will be a ceremony dedicated to Colonel D. Winters

At 6.00 pm a “Peace Ceremony” will be held at marker “0″ in front of the town hall in Sainte-Mère Eglise and later that evening a concert for peace will be celebrated inside the church of Sainte-Mère Eglise ( where in the movie “The Longest Day” John Steele a paratrooper of the 82nd Airborne gets caught up on the tower of the church after jumping out of his C-47 Skytrain on the night of June 6th 1944 )