I tear up when I hear him say this. Few men have ever "saved the world." Churchill was one of those. Winston was one of the greatest Americans ever.
Posted on 06/18/2010 9:39:36 AM PDT by sussex
My parents listened to that broadcast sitting in their home in London. They never forgot it for the rest of their lives. Suddenly, they recalled, years later, Churchill’s stirring rhetoric at a time when things seemed totally lost, gave people a new sense of confidence – a feeling that, at last, after decades of weakness, the nation and its leader were at one with each other.
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“...Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation...”
Sadly, no politician today talks about culture or civilization, much less dares mention Christianity.
I tear up when I hear him say this. Few men have ever "saved the world." Churchill was one of those. Winston was one of the greatest Americans ever.
Winston Churchill and Barack Obama, in fact, have much in common.
tell us more.
Like the fact that neither were elegible to be US President?
Yes and the Commies in UK paid back their debt to Churchill in 1944. Lovely.
Both had mothers who were American citizens, fathers who were British subjects and neither was eligible to be President, yes.
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