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It is with the greatest awe, respect, and admiration that we thank the men and women who fought and died—on D-Day and beyond—to preserve and protect the ideals of liberty and democracy at home and abroad.
Their sacrifice—those who died as well as those who lived on, forever affected by the horrors of the combat they endured—has given the rest of us a gift more meaningful and world-changing than any other.
But it is a gift I fear we take for granted. And one I fear we are losing piece by piece. I don't know where this nation is going in the future, but I know many in the past gave everything so that we would could determine that future for ourselves. May we build a system that honors their sacrifice. And may we elect leaders who view them as the heroes they were.
TheWorldNeedsMoreNiceThings
"You remember it. Remember every bit of it. 'Cause we are on the eve of a day that people are going to talk about long after we are dead and gone."
DiarmuidRyan
German Commander at the Normandy coast telephones HQ at the rear: "THE ALLIES ARE HERE!" "Oh, how may of them?" "ALL OF THEM!!!!" *Kabooom*. I've been there for the 70th and 75th anniversaries. These veterans are gods among men.
Preincarnated
Such a good movie. I also hope this country wakes up before it's too late.
But...since we are doing to ourselves and a third of the populace is 100% on-board to a deep & dangerous cult-like degree, and another third of the population just doesn't seem to ever give enough of a shit to ever step-up anyway, I don't know that we will. It is to the point where--not everywhere, mind you, but definitely in more places than I'm comfortable with--I genuinely fear blood in the streets this Nov. to Jan.
DontNeedAWeatherManToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows
An ABC news piece interviewing some of the soldiers 80 years later - worth 8 minutes of your time: https://youtu.be/kAu6TrPyeDs
JarJarDrinks
John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Peter Lawford, Red Buttons, Gert Frobe. What a great cast.
SciFiGuy2018
John Wayne didn't serve. The big guy was was a coward in real life.
EdmundandHarald365
Richard Tod played the major he served under on D Day, when he was a paratrooper who helped secure Pegasus bridge. (Which the allied air force then dropped a bomb on by mistake, luckily it bounced off of the counterweight and didn't destroy the bridge.)
nevetsx
I wonder if he ever found the dog?
Mohareb
One would have thought we had learned not to wait too long when uprising shit-holes like Russia tries to make empires. At least we're slowly moving forward on it but it could defo be faster
stayingalive4life
One reason is because people have this belief (and naive hope) that it wouldn’t happen again as we should’ve learned from history. Unfortunately, we have too many people that either didn’t learn it or are willfully ignorant of it.