![]() “Here, in this place where the West held together, let us make a vow to our dead. “They fought - or felt in their hearts, though they couldn’t know in fact, that in Georgia they were filling the churches at 4 a.m., in Kansas they were kneeling on their porches and praying, and in Philadelphia they were ringing the Liberty Bell.”Ħ. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.”ĥ. ![]() “One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. It was faith and belief it was loyalty and love.”Ĥ. “Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. These are the heroes who helped end a war.”ģ. These are the champions who helped free a continent. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.”Ģ. Here are 7 quotes from his speech thirty years ago, which all still ring true today: 1. ![]() President Ronald Reagan’s D-Day speech in 1984, called the “Boys of Pointe Du Hoc,” is just as powerful today as it was three decades ago. ![]() On the 70th Anniversary of the Normandy landings, we honor the brave men who risked and sacrificed their lives to free Europe from tyranny.
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