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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 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 today the air is soft.
40 years ago at this moment the air was dense with smoke the cries of men, 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 would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied Advance.
The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers on the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine 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.
They climbed shot back and held their footing soon one by one the Rangers pulled themselves over the top.
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The speech is so profound and so focused- just impressive and inspirational. Reagan was a force to be reckoned with, as Gorby found out, and who was taken out by real Freedom vs the Soviet disaster system. Some said Chernobyl’s debacle was the death knell of the Soviet system- that may be. The political end of them was actuated by Ronald Reagan’s policies and determination.