The partial shutdown of the U.S. government continues to claim victims - and some of the casualties are military cemeteries abroad, reports CBS News.
The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial - the site overlooking the D-Day invasion beaches - is one of 24 U.S. military cemeteries overseas that have been shuttered. The closed cemeteries include 10 in France, and others throughout Europe as well as Mexico, Panama, Tunisia and the Philippines.
More than 9,000 military dead are buried at the Omaha Beach cemetery, which is maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission. Nearly 125,000 U.S. servicemen and women are buried at its cemeteries, and 94,000 missing service members are honored on tablets.
Read more of this report from CBS News.