40th Anniversary of D-Day (reagan speech from 1984)

Reagan2000 website ^ | 1984 | Ronald Reagan

[Mr. Silverback]

Enough already. D-Day's over.

Come again?

[Mr. Silverback]

Never forget.

[Ready4Freddy]

Will do, Silverback. Uncle Bill grew up and lived in NOLA, and was an active worker in the background when the D-Day Museum was being planned and built.

I've been to the Museum many times with him, and it is so heartwarming to see a couple and their kids realize that the elderly one-armed man standing next to them was there. They usually ask about his experiences, and it brings tears to my eyes when they thank him, and usually hug him before moving off to the next exhibit.

[Mr. Silverback]

Thank you. That was moving. My grandfather and one of his brothers both spent time in mental hospitals after some terrible duty in the Pacific. My grandad fought in at least one hand-to-hand night action with the Japanese. It's a wonder they weren't all crazy when they came home.

[TomServo]

Next time to talk to him, tell him Thanks and my best wishes for him, also...

He should be proud...

[TomServo]

to=you....fat fingers.

[Ready4Freddy]

Thanks to both of you, I'll certainly pass your comments along to him.

[husky ed]

Enough already. D-Day's over.

Hey Hillaywannabe, your on the wrong board!

[Valin]

Bump and bookmark

[cgk]

Bttt!

[Mr. Silverback]

Will do, Silverback. Uncle Bill grew up and lived in NOLA, and was an active worker in the background when the D-Day Museum was being planned and built.

Isn't that an odd coincidence! I was just finishing To America on Friday morning, including the chapter about the establishment of the D-Day Museum. Awesome!

[Ready4Freddy]

A dimunitive terrestrial sphere, it is. :>)

If you haven't been, you need to go, Silverback. They opened the Pacific Theater Exhibit on Dec 7, 2001, if you need an excuse to go back. Well worth the trip to NOLA.

[rcofdayton]

Does anyone know where one could buy a video of those speeches?

[SAMWolf]

Not off hand, but the Reagan Library may have copies for sale.

[Mr. Silverback]

A dimunitive terrestrial sphere, it is. :>)

No kidding, and it gets even more bizarre: I was going through some old magazines tonight, and one of the first ones I opened was a Novemeber issue of Focus on the Family that had an account of D-Day by a doctor who credits God with getting him through the day alive.

If you haven't been, you need to go, Silverback.

I definitely will! After reading Ambrose's book, I am raring to get down there, and my wife and I are thinking of taking the kids and following the Lewis and Clark trail in a few years.

[Ready4Freddy]

I hope y'all do make it, Silverback. I'd recommend the Embassy Suites on Julia Street. Decent prices ($139 / night), could sleep 6 in the suite, and a great buffet and / or cooked-to-order breakfast included with room.

It's ~4 blocks from the Museum on Magazine Street, a few blocks from the Quarter and Aquarium, and the Museum is 2 blocks from St Charles, where you can catch the trolley to get to the Garden District, etc.

[baseballmom]

I stood there. At Pointe de Hoc. And on the bluff overlooking Omaha Beach. I walked that beach. Just being there, seeing it, was overwhelming. I couldn't have done what these boys did. I was so overcome with a feeling of -what, - helplessness, cowardice, terror - that I couldn't believe it. To see those gun emplacements - they were huge!! Oh, God have mercy on those that fought that day - and bless them all. What they did is unbelievable - the bravery, the sheer audacity of storming those cliffs and beaches was courage that we will never know. Thank God for our fathers.

[Tailback]

Leave it to Ronald Reagan to bring me to tears. God bless him, I wish he was still POTUS.

[baseballmom]

I hope you get to the D-Day museum. It was fantastic. There is so much to see and hear.

My daughter was in college in New Orleans when they opened the Pacific wing in 2001, shortly after 9/11. They flew some kind of jets overhead that day, and she called me - frantic - thinking we were under attack, again. I assured her that we were OK, they were having a celebratiion and parade at the D-Day museum, and why didn't she get up and get down there!!! Kids !!

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