This how an American President does it:

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Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day

William Stout says:
June 8, 2014 at 14:14 (Edit)
There are events in history that define a generation. D-Day was one of those events. When the beaches were stormed, it was hell on earth. Men rushed gun emplacements knowing that they would die. Others died advancing Bangalore torpedoes under concertina wire. So many died in the surf, that the waters of the Atlantic ran blood red. Many died in the landing craft when the ramps dropped and the Nazis opened fire with machine guns. Others perished as they struggled to swim, but were pulled under by the weight of their equipment. Many a sailor wept as he saw the slaughter of that day and knew that many men had died without even being given a fighting chance for life.
But as terrible as D-Day was, the men who took the beaches would not relent and they won the day and broke the back of the opposition. It was their will alone that pushed them onward and when they met their enemy, they gave back as good as they had gotten. President Reagan was of that generation and he knew their sacrifice.
Obama has no knowledge of the men who fought that day. He did not know them as boys and he does not understand how such men came to exist in the first place. To him, it is old news. He has no appreciation for the Allied achievement on D-Day and he never will. For him, it is just another trip on Air Force One and a holiday with speeches in France. Frankly, that is how many people now view the D-Day remembrance today. They do not see it as a triumph over evil. They do not see it as an affirmation of liberty and Judeo-Christian ethics, and that is the sign that that hell will be re-lived in the future.
Where Reagan approached the remembrance with solemnity and sympathy, Obama approached it with arrogance and banality. Thank God that he and his ilk were not charged with the task of storming those beaches. It is a certainty that they would not have been successful in taking the beaches of Normandy.
My greatest fear is that Col. Chamberlain’s prediction will one day come to pass. On that day, we will not have the giants who will stand firm when the clarion call of battle comes. And in their absence, we shall be both damned and doomed.

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  1. The full speech:
    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2014/06/these-are-the-boys-of-pointe-du-hoc/
    “..Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and belief; it was loyalty and love.”

  4. For those who prefer to listen to the whole Pointe-du-hoc speech.

    http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/reagan-d-day.htm

    You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you….

    When the war was over, there were lives to be rebuilt and governments to be returned to the people. There were nations to be reborn. Above all, there was a new peace to be assured. These were huge and daunting tasks. But the Allies summoned strength from the faith, belief, loyalty, and love of those who fell here. They rebuilt a new Europe together.

    How those men who gave their lives to liberate Europe from tyranny must be turning in their graves as the EU imposes it’s own tyranny.

      • We certainly have in America – We have become an elected dictatorship under Obama.

        We have become the very thing Washington, Madison and Jefferson feared we would become and wrote the U.S. Constitution to prevent.

        Thus the good republic has become the evil empire complete with a dark emperor who makes common cause with the Muslim Brotherhood. :evil:

        REVOLUTION ANYONE :?: http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

        • Yes please. Can we first kill the judges who are still ignoring the Constitution?

  5. There are events in history that define a generation. D-Day was one of those events. When the beaches were stormed, it was hell on earth. Men rushed gun emplacements knowing that they would die. Others died advancing Bangalore torpedoes under concertina wire. So many died in the surf, that the waters of the Atlantic ran blood red. Many died in the landing craft when the ramps dropped and the Nazis opened fire with machine guns. Others perished as they struggled to swim, but were pulled under by the weight of their equipment. Many a sailor wept as he saw the slaughter of that day and knew that many men had died without even being given a fighting chance for life.

    But as terrible as D-Day was, the men who took the beaches would not relent and they won the day and broke the back of the opposition. It was their will alone that pushed them onward and when they met their enemy, they gave back as good as they had gotten. President Reagan was of that generation and he knew their sacrifice.

    Obama has no knowledge of the men who fought that day. He did not know them as boys and he does not understand how such men came to exist in the first place. To him, it is old news. He has no appreciation for the Allied achievement on D-Day and he never will. For him, it is just another trip on Air Force One and a holiday with speeches in France. Frankly, that is how many people now view the D-Day remembrance today. They do not see it as a triumph over evil. They do not see it as an affirmation of liberty and Judeo-Christian ethics, and that is the sign that that hell will be re-lived in the future.

    Where Reagan approached the remembrance with solemnity and sympathy, Obama approached it with arrogance and banality. Thank God that he and his ilk were not charged with the task of storming those beaches. It is a certainty that they would not have been successful in taking the beaches of Normandy.

    My greatest fear is that Col. Chamberlain’s prediction will one day come to pass. On that day, we will not have the giants who will stand firm when the clarion call of battle comes. And in their absence, we shall be both damned and doomed.

  6. Eisenhower left a message before the invasion saying how it was his fault if it failed. Given how much HBSC blames everyone else for his failures, I’m surprised he takes credit for his daughters.

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