keep talking they re not a hero. i just did my job the real heroes laying here on a cemetery deja heroes she d never forgive them 46 president in the united states of america, joseph r. biden jr. here biden, junior nearly calm monday june 5 5, 1944 the evil fairly third reich was devastated the world nazi germany had subjugated and wants three nations of europe through brute, force lives and twisted ideology of racial superiority millions of jews murdered in the holocaust millions of others killed by bombs molars bloody warfare. hitler and those with them thought democracies were week at the future, belonged to dictators here the coast of normandy. the battle between freedom and tyranny would be joined here on that june morning, the testing was at hand president macron mrs. macron, secretary austin, secretary blinken, distinguished guest most of all our honored veterans who met that test, the ages a test of ages to that moment. 80 years ago 80 years ago today we have
there of that de to tell their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren about why they did it there was a deep divide in america in 1941 over what to do about dictators. and about half the country said, it s not our problem. and there was an organization called america first after the japanese attacked pearl harbor. america first on its own, disbanded and from december 1941 until recently america first was understood to mean american needed to take care of itself through its alliances to maintain stability around the world, to be there. when dictators challenged regional freedom that was a consensus view, that was an understanding americans disagreed over vietnam but on the larger point that in many ways we remain the indispensable nation to help other nation state three, that
china to taiwan and beyond and he said, just before that line, isolationism was not the answer 80 years ago and it is not the answer today in effect, saying it is good to celebrate those great moments. great tests met from the past. but we re being tested again. and the challenge now just to meet that test and to tim naftali is point that was not a certain answer in 1939 or 41, or 1944, there were many in this country quite powerful people who argued much as we re hearing, argued today, that the sacrifice was too great, that the war in europe was not america s war, much as you hear today about ukraine pain are about taiwan they could have won the argument right? it was not certain that the us was going to join this war. fdr for years, it was pearl harbor that lead to that ultimate decision so biden s point in effect is, while you re celebrating that moment 80 years ago you have to in his view, make the same
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