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President Trump Delivers Stunning D-Day Speech On 75th Anniversary
dailycaller.com ^ | 6/6/2019 | Amber Athey

Posted on 06/06/2019 10:24:20 AM PDT by rktman

President Donald Trump delivered a moving address during the 75th-anniversary commemoration of D-Day in Normandy, France, on Thursday.

The president took the stage shortly after French President Emmanuel Macron and addressed the crowd, which included 60 American veterans who were present on D-Day when the American forces stormed the beaches of Normandy. “You are the pride of our nation, you are the glory of the republic, and we thank you from the bottom of our heart,” Trump said to applause.

The president honored the troops from other countries before asserting, “And finally, there were the Americans.”

“They came from the farms of a vast heartland, the streets of glowing cities and the forges of mighty industrial towns. Before the war, many had never ventured beyond their own community. Now, they had come to offer their lives halfway across the world,” he said.

The president declared that the soldiers who came to Normandy that day “knew that they were carrying on their shoulders not just the pack of a soldier, the but the fate of the world.”

Trump took time to honor several of the American veterans present by name, including former Army medic Arnold Raymond “Ray” Lambert, who is now 98 years old.

Lambert was one of just six men who survived from his landing craft, was shot in the arm, had his leg ripped open by shrapnel, and suffered a broken back, but he continued to attempt to save others on the beach and in the water for hours.

“Ray, the free world salutes you,” Trump said as the crowd gave Lambert a standing ovation.

The president paused his speech at that point to walk over to Lambert and shake his hand. Lambert responded by tipping his “D-Day veteran” hat to the president....

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To: Jane Long; null and void; aragorn; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; ...
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OANN is going to replay POTUS’ D DAY speech, in full, tonight.

Thanks, Jane Long.

41 posted on 06/06/2019 12:33:00 PM PDT by LucyT (https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall)
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To: DCBryan1

She is in heaven sucking puss from that abscessed molar she seems on the verge of orgasam


42 posted on 06/06/2019 1:04:58 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: rktman

Leadership, patriotism, gratitude.

It’s what has made Donald Trump Great Again


43 posted on 06/06/2019 1:26:12 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Pussie Smollett, Mizzou, campus fake nooses, fake "protests" FAKE EVERYTHING Hey CNN? lol)
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To: DCBryan1

Caption:

I want to see Trump in prison!”


44 posted on 06/06/2019 2:10:25 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: LucyT; Jane Long; bitt

Speech 26 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z03fEFZ7-gs

Transcript
President Trump Speech in Commemoration of D-Day
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/06/president-trump-speech-in-commemoration-of-d-day/


45 posted on 06/06/2019 2:23:01 PM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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To: Whenifhow

Thanks for posting the speech and transcript links.


46 posted on 06/06/2019 3:41:05 PM PDT by blondiegoodbadugly (Thank you President Trump! Please continue MAGA)
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To: Whenifhow

Thanks much for the speech and transcript ping.


47 posted on 06/06/2019 3:41:31 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Whenifhow

Thanks much for the speech and transcript ping.


48 posted on 06/06/2019 3:41:34 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Hiskid; Faith; Jeanbl; John4.11; Kitty Mittens; LoL_lady; Maudeen; NEWwoman; SisterK; ...

President Trump's speech this morning in France
was at many points itself a prayer. Our President spoke from
the depths of his heart, especially in the last third.

Trump's speech at 75th D-Day anniversary in Normandy | Full remarks



49 posted on 06/06/2019 5:24:42 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: LucyT

YouTube has the President’s Normandy speech posted. Send it to your family and friends who may have missed it early this morning. It is very well written by Stephen Miller and given by President Trump.


50 posted on 06/06/2019 6:13:51 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Albion Wilde; StarsandStripesFOREVER; Hiskid

God’s Timing.

Is it any wonder the Reverend Franklin Graham felt compelled to hold his ‘day of prayer’ for the President JUST this past Sunday?!!

The Holy Spirit’s presence has been felt overseas and has CLEARLY been with the President on this most consequential of weeks!

Even the Associated Press article pointed out that a literal “breeze” blew off the English channel as President Trump arrived to the UK commemoration event yesterday.


51 posted on 06/06/2019 6:27:16 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Albion Wilde

Thank you for the link to President Trump’s D-Day Speech.

It was amazing.


52 posted on 06/06/2019 7:50:39 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Red Badger

“They did not know if they would survive the hour.They did not know if they would grow old.”

Many of the young American soldiers, sailors and airmen never survived the first hours, or those spent on the beaches of Normandy.

Many of them would never become a “millennial” because they died before they ever reached that age, dying for the cause of freedom, which too many of our “snowflakes” today would never do.

As I remember, Pres. George W. Bush was one of the youngest pilots in the Navy and was shot down on what was essentially a suicide torpedo run mission against overwhelming Japanese naval air and firepower. He was the only survivor of this attack group, with all the planes being shot down, including his own. He was in his teens when this happened, not at some fucking Starbucks complaining about a lack of different Lotte’ flavors.

The US soldiers, including teenagers at the Chosin Reservoir battle in the Korean War, against overwhelming Red Chinese forces, died before becoming “milleninals” but they died with battlefield honor in the cause of freedom, not with “I’m fighting for diversity” on their lips.

The guys I met in So. Vietnam ranged from young to senior (General) ranked men, many of whom never became “millenials”, but died as American soldiers, airmen and sailors, from the tip of Ca Mau to the mountains of Chau Doc Province, Ia Drang, Ashua Valley, Khe Sanh, Hue, Saigon, and in every province in-between.

My son was 27 when he went into Iraq but there were a lot of younger soldiers in his company, the 299th Army Engineers (MRB) as well as some older veterans. They definitely were NOT “millennial”. They built bridges, fought against the Republican Guard and fedeyeen terrorists, helped the people when they could, and fortunately escaped with any combat injuries.

I met them, white, black, Asian, Moslems, one Jew - my son, Christians, men and women, but they were first and foremost Americans, American soldiers, but Americans first.

My son-in-law, who was older at the time of his service in Iraq (and earlier in Kosovo), is so American that his blood is red, white and blue. No millennial he. He was (always will be a Marine) and a worker (welder). My son became a federal police/K9 officer and still works in national security projects.

My daughter worked for Concerned Veterans of America and the VA Hospital in DC.

None of them had time to be a “millennial”. They spent their time being Americans in the service of their country and to servicemen/women and veterans.

Today, from figures I heard from our very strong Secy of Defense, we are protected via the military services, by about 1% of the population, and a large proportion of those who are not in the military could not qualify for a service because they were undereducated, physically unfit, mentally weak (or, in my opinion), not trustworthy to have in a foxhole or in the jungle, desert, or mountains during combat.

There are some very decent millenials out there, including members of Congress, but the drinking/partying crowds that walk around with an IPhone in their ear or hands or a Starbucks coffee, is not someone I would trust with my life or my country.

It takes a special kind of person to climb into a Higgins boat in bad weather, to cross 20 miles of the English channel, the last couple of miles under heavy enemy fire or to be dropped at night behind enemy lines as was actor William Windom (Commodore Decker in Star Trek’s “The Doomsday Machine andthe prosecutor in “To Kill A Mocking Bird”).

Do we have enough young men and women who would volunteer to do that today? I doubt it.

Thank God we did during WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Dom. Republic, Desert Storm, Kosovo, Operation Iraqi Freedom/Afghanistan (Global War on Terrorism), and today in shitholes like Mali/Africa, Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere to protect us from Al Qaeda, ISIS and its Islamic State affiliates, the drug cartels (esp. the US Coast Guard), and the growing threats from the criminal/KGB state of Russia and the Communist Red Chinese war machine that is on the march against the West.

The question that worries me the most is will we have “enough” of these young men and women to do the job of protecting us from multiple threats, or will the “Millenial Malaise” of self-centered egotism, cowardice, “I don’t want to get involved” or “America isn’t worth defending and fighting for” going to rot our will to resist from within.

If we fall, the Communists and Democrats and their assorted lunatics, “diversity” freaks, fake media, Marxist-oriented academia, and crooks will be responsible. They will never take the blame so I’m putting it on them now.

Screw the Democrats, Marxists psychos and cowardly Millenials.

We’ve had “The Greatest Generation” arise from the Spanish Civil War to the global fight on terrorism, and I’m praying that in the coming years, a new “Greatest Generation” of young American men and women will step up to defense our country.

Otherwise, we will collapse from within and to aggression from without, long before AOC’s 12 years left until climate change wipes us out.

We have a national psychological “cancer of cowardice and stupidity” that needs to be exercised like a brain tumor from the media to academia, politics to science, and it needs to be done NOW.

We salute those men of “D-Day”, Sicily/No. Africa, CBI, Philippines, Bataan-Corregidor, Wake Island, Midway, Saipan, Iwo Jima (My father-in-law), Okinawa, the Aleutians and China. They were their generation’s “Best, Brightest and Bravest”.

Now we pray for another “Greatest Generation of the 3Bs”. Either they arise to the call, or America will fall.

God Bless America!


53 posted on 06/06/2019 8:33:26 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; Albion Wilde

Thank you for the link and encouraging commentary.


54 posted on 06/06/2019 8:52:16 PM PDT by Hiskid (Jesus is Lord)
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To: rktman
Beautiful speech! Well done! Even the rabid leftists Acosta and Scarborough had to admit it was great.

Had another "Thank God for President Trump" moment when considering the alternative: Her Heinousness of Benghazi being at this event. Ughhh.

Thank God for president Trump!

55 posted on 06/06/2019 11:35:48 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait.)
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To: mass55th

Couldnt watch made me remember things I do not want to remember


56 posted on 06/07/2019 1:50:12 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: rktman

PDJT stirringly eloquent at a solemn international event. MSM jaws to drop for all of five seconds. Then back to hysterical hatred mode, as per usual.


57 posted on 06/07/2019 5:59:26 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Yeah, but that 5 seconds was awesome.


58 posted on 06/07/2019 7:14:21 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Even the Associated Press article pointed out that a literal “breeze” blew off the English channel as President Trump arrived to the UK commemoration event yesterday.

I can't stop weeping at this event and all it means and has meant. God is so good!

59 posted on 06/07/2019 8:11:07 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: PIF

I understand. I can still remember my brother when he came home from Vietnam, getting the shakes sitting at the kitchen table first thing in the morning.


60 posted on 06/07/2019 8:14:46 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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