d-day invasion. those and courageous sacrifice that day for all of us. there you can see the president and his wife, dr. jill biden meeting with those veterans. now, most of them over 90, just a few still remain with us president biden is expected to speak soon from the beaches of normandy, france, 18 years ago today, those beaches were the scene of the largest amphibious invasion in military history. listen to franklin roosevelt praying with the nation as the de d-day mission was unfolding. almighty god some prior to ban the this de, i ve set upon the meitei-sho endeavor let s criminal to preserve our republic all religion and our civilization and set free a suffering humanity more than 70,000 american troops joined allies forces for operation overlord on june 6, 1944. 2,500 us soldiers died that day storming the beaches, 29,000 more were killed during the battle of normandy that followed the sacrifices of america s greatest generation led to the downfall of hitler s naz
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to grapple with because that is not, it s only 80 years ago. it s really not that long and here we are getting again, i when we just lost someone in my life who was able to participate in who was who fought for us steven. you re we re gonna go back to ken burns here. so briefly, your reflections on this today. thing to ises point when the witness of history fade away, it s easier for the malevolent forces to pervert history. and what history seems like linear d-day was not always assured to be a success. dwight eisenhower carrier a message in his wallet that said that he would deliver it in the event of a retreat which said, if there is any blame, it s all basically on me and that kind of leadership is, i think what we ve been somewhat lacking in recent years. very interesting. all right ken burns, like i said, i want to give you the last word here as someone who has devoted a significant portion of their life to helping us all. remember these days what would
but to him this is about something i think bigger than that. and of course, that s the weird thing about this election is that we re not talking about tax policy or what might happen with this regulation or that regulation or any of the normal things that they talked about in campaign. we re talking about what kind of america we want to be living in. and what kind of world we want america to be function again and those are very different visions that are coming from joe biden and donald trump. a world of course that we owe to the men we are seeing here on our screens, those veterans who stormed the beaches at omaha beach 80 years ago. at the start of the de d-day invasion that ultimately lead to the liberation of france and the world from hitler and the nazis ahead here, president biden s message to america s allies from the hallowed shores of normandy plus filmmaker, legendary filmmaker ken burns joins us to talk about the historical significance of this day there s no war, so hatef
invasion of france, that began the liberation of that country and of europe and the world from nazi tyranny joining us live from walpole, new hampshire to reflect on this momentous day is the award-winning director and filmmaker. ken burns, who of course produced the war. it s simply called the war, the definitive documentary outlining what happened in the course of world war ii. i can, i m so grateful to have you on the program. i just like to start with your reflections as we see what are really our final remaining veterans, those courageous men who stormed the beach that day casey thanks for having me. this is one of the most important days in american history. it s certainly one of the most important days in world history. this is the greatest cataclysm in the history. of the world more than 60 million people were killed. this is the greatest invasion in the history of that. and we began our film at the end of the 90s to err in 2007 because