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you'd asked me about visiting. normally i got to go twice when i was covering president obama and it's an incredible place. the american cemetery and the monument are so meticulously manicured and the aura of the place is it's both somber and celebratory. it's incredibly quiet peaceful and people who go there treat with that kind of reverence. the second time i went, i snuck away from the filing center for a little while. the president already left and i was able to go down to walk down the cliff to omah, be itch, and to stand there at the water's edge and turn around and look up and you could kind of see what it would look like to approach. and what a position of vulnerability are in what a how terrifying it must have been, but how purposeful it must have felt anyone can go there if you can