via the winds this is cnn, the world s news welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper on june 6, 1944, american, canadian, british, and other allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in history. nearly 160,000 troops landed along five beaches in normandy, france. and what became known as d-day it was a turning point in the war in europe world war ii was fought against fascist regimes and germany and italy and imperial japan the victory of democratic principles was hard. one but 80 years have passed since d-day. and we thought it a good time to take a look at the state of our democracy today over the next hour, cnn s jake tapper looks back at d-day sacrifices. so many young men made on those beaches in normandy that day. and what it means to us now what were we fighting for? we were locked a battle with fascism. we re fighting for our freedom, for the freedom to think as we wish kopan with they gave their life to preserve and protect that constitution the
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expected that he would give me some sort of tactical lesson like shoot low and keep your three-second. russia is and have a whole bag of hand grenades with you or something like that but we looked at me and he teared up and he said, general, never let it happen again. i think that s that entire generation right then my father said that 1 million times and the veterans who survived those wars, we can t fully appreciate it today, jake, the level of suffering and sacrifice that they went through yet these de d-day veterans, most of them now in their late 90s have a surprising zest for life somebody up stairs loves me. i am the luckiest man in the world us army veteran jake larson, nickname papa jake. hey, tiktok fans is a
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