folks who participated in de day or were part of the struggle during world war ii, which was really a struggle between freedom and fascism and it was a great cost and great sacrifice and many lives lost. and we honor and uplift them. today and always. and recommit to freedom and democracy and the principles that they fought. so valent, we, for to make sure that we can keep them alive mr. >> liter, this commemoration and columns as an uncertain future looms over the west to be quite frank about it, there is a ground war raging now in eastern europe, and there is a presidential campaign that very well rel, reelect a man who has questioned nato which is really the security foundation that these men at d-day fought and