"We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.
We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France. The air is soft, but forty years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.
The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers -- at the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine-guns and throwing grenades. And the American Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back, and held their footing. Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe. Two hundred and twenty-five came here. After two days of fighting only ninety could still bear arms.
Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them there.
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war..."
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Barack Obama (June 6, 2010): "Uh, I wanna listen to uh...Lionel Ritchie sing, and uh...Kelly...uh....Clarkson. There's uh...uh...oil spilling in the Gulf, but I'm gonna uh...play some hoops tomorrow while those typical white people in the Gulf...uh...lose their jobs."
Best response from the article comments was from a poster named MSMediacritic, who wrote:
Why should he celebrate D-Day? In his view, the wrong side won.
He wants the adulation the title (of POTUS) brings but not the responsibility of the office.
A former neighbor of mine was there that day. One of his jobs was to release the door of the landing craft so the other soldiers could come off the landing craft shooting. It took two hands to open the ramp release and two men per ramp. He is one of the bravest men I have ever met. We only talked about that day twice, and all he would say was that we lost a lot of good men and boys that day.
If he’s going to Ford’s Theater we can hold another celebration for him. (hint hint)
Why would he commemorate D-Day? It led to the overthrow of the type of government he favors most.
You’d actually have to stand up and believe in America in order to understand the significance of D-Day and what it meant for America.
BO and the lib-tards don’t have a clue and this POS is pathetic at best on a good day.
In respectful memory of those who died on that day, I am GENUINELY glad that piece of crap did not attend any observances.
I often post this picture to illustrate what any military person with a brain thinks of this Poser in Chief:
I do know there are people in the military who support him, but...those are generally idiots who don't even consider that while they may adore him, he despises and holds them (even MORE than most leftists do) in utter contempt. It is astonishing, really.
As he would say,he has no skin in the game.
D-Day is “white” history, not interesting to certain groups...
Then they moved into the idea of segregation for the sake of segregation. That usually meant busing kids all over Hell's Half-Acre and having to meet buses before sunrise for an extended ride across town to a completely foreign world. Parents were denied the ability to ‘drop in’ and check on a school or students, and the idea of a viable PTA organization was a non-starter.
The list goes on and on, but I trace the roots of the problem to the day when our young people were no longer taught about the why’s and wherefore's of, despite its shortcomings, America's position in the world.
D-Day and the sacrifices that were made, along with the overwhelming success it kicked off, are hated by liberals. And, for now at least, these liberals are running the show. Experience is a tough teacher, she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards. We are taking the test and it's abundantly clear those in charge are not up to the task.
OK leftwing apolgists for obama, spin this one.
Has any US President since 1945 failed to recognize D-Day and what that sacrifice achieved?
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
The real, basic, fundamental question here is how do you fix a country stupid/crazy enough to elect to its highest office an individual like Barack “Death to America” Husein Obama
I think the U.S. President should make it a tradition to hold a ceremony at the D-Day memorial in Bedford, VA each year and then to the Landing Craft museum in New Orleans.