President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at the 75th Commemoration of D-Day Thursday, June 6, 2019, at the Normandy American Cemetery in Normandy, France. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Yesterday on the 75th anniversary of D-Day, President Trump delivered a speech, which Bright editor Ellie Bufkin called “evocative of Ronald Reagan’s 1984 speech to recognize the 40 years since the ‘boys of Pointe-du-Hoc’ scaled the Normandy cliffs to silence German guns.”
We are gathered here on freedom’s altar, on these shores, on these bluffs, on this day 75 years ago, 10,000 men shed their blood, and thousands sacrificed their lives for their brothers, for their countries, and for the survival of liberty.
Today we remember those who fell, and we honor all who fought right here in Normandy. They wouldn’t back this ground for civilization. To more than one 170 Veterans of the Second World War, who join us today, you are among the very greatest Americans who will ever live. You are the pride of our nation. You are the glory of our republic. And we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
This beach, codenamed Omaha, was defended by the Nazis with monstrous firepower, thousands and thousands of mines and spikes driven into the sands so deeply. It was here that tens of thousands of the Americans came. The G.I.’s who boarded the landing craft that morning knew that they carried on their shoulders not just the pack of a soldier, but the fate of the world.
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President Trump and The First Lady Participate in the 75th Commemoration of D-Day
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