imagining whether or not that will make a mark on the president, those conversations that they possibly will have. what, in fact, they will say to the president of the united states as they meet him. i want to bring in colonel jack jacobs back into the conversation. inning to think about the veterans attending there today. so many of which may not attends another ceremony like this of d-day because they are in their 90s at this point and they were young men when they fought in this area so many years ago, 75 years ago. and this was the greatest generation. they saw themselves as the greatest generation, and their role in freeing the world, freeing the world from nazi germany. you know, the day after the japanese attacked pearl harbor on 7th of december, 1941, on the 8th hundreds of thousands of young people streamed out to reception stations to volunteer
war that is largely fought in the shadows. but as we all know, also has its hot incarnations around the world. i think there s a cliche in commentary and in history about losing innocence, but in many ways we only had two serious foreign attacks on our soil in american history from 1812 forward. one was the attack on pearl harbor on the 7th of december, 1941. the other was the attack on new york city, washington, d.c. and the skies over pennsylvania on september 11th, 2001. it took an america that since the end of the cold war, since the fall of the berlin wall, since the end of the live possibility of armageddon which we had lived with from the 1940s forward, it took that and it ended that period of relative