it is an extraordinarily beautiful morning here in normandy. the sun is out. the skies are blue. you can see the beach behind me that is omaha beach where nearly 150,000 allied forces landed 80 years ago today. they started with parajumpers in the early hours of the morning and hours before that there were rangers who scaled the cliffs at point ahawk in order to take out german guns, 255 of those rangers, only 90 of them were still alive two days later. the extraordinary sacrifice of these young men is what you feel so intensely here at normandy this will never be forgotten and we need to understand context today. we will look for the president to speak about the context of this in the larger picture of