Voie de la Liberté Milestone

This stone marker is a copy of a monument that lines a road across Europe. The original is called the Voie de la Liberté, the Way of Liberty, and it traces the path that General George Patton's Third United States Army followed after the D-Day landings in June of nineteen forty-four. A French liaison officer suggested planting a marker at every single kilometer along the route of liberation, and the sculptor François Cogné designed the model.

More than eleven hundred of these stones run from Sainte-Mère-Église in Normandy, across northern France, and on to Bastogne near the Luxembourg border. Along that road, Allied forces freed France, Belgium, and Luxembourg from Nazi occupation, with Luxembourg City liberated on the tenth of September, nineteen forty-four. A copy was placed here, far from the battlefields, so that an American community could stand beside the same symbol of freedom that marks the soldiers' long march east.