masterful opening address thursday night, then alex kershaw telling us about the first wave yesterday. now we are going to wrap up with a panel on two new books on d-day that came out this year. to chair this session is the man most responsible for all of us being here today, our founding president and ceo, dr. nick mueller. [applause] crean: as if building one of the greatest museums in the world was not enough, it has just published a book on d-day. we have taken the liberty of stealing his book title for the title of this session, so for everything we have, it is my pleasure to give the stage to dr. nick mueller. dr. mueller: i had the opening session and the last 1, 2, so we are the bookends. i saw jeremy put out here what i was looking for. are the only things between you and drinks, as they say, the evening session, so we are going to make this an exciting program. before we get going, you may have seen outside there were brochures out there for our programs we are goin
I want to talk about an elusive dday mystery that exists. Despite the millions of words written about the allied invasion about normandy, june 6, 1944. What did general dwight d. Eisenhower say when he gave the final order to launch the attack . Its puzzling to me, anyway, that perhaps the most important decision of the 20th century did not bequeath to history and posterity a quote to mark the occasion, something to live up to the magnitude of ikes decision. Something iconic like general Douglas Macarthurs vow to the people of the philippines, i shall return. The stakes of the invasion certainly merited verbal splendor, if not eloquence, if the overlord operation had failed the allies might never have won the war and yet eyewitnesses to eisenhowers great moment of decision could not agree on what he said. And as for eisenhower, he could not even agree with himself. He related five versions of his fateful words to journalists and biographers over the years that perhaps even more mysteri
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