50mile stretch of coastline defended by german forces. Allied troops suffered more than 9000 casualties but gained a foothold on french soil. Next, the author of the first way talks about the d day invasion and its impact on the war. This is one hour. Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the allied expedition wars, you are about to embark upon a great crusade for which we have driven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. And company with the brave allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the german war machine. The elimination of nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of europe and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is welltrained, wellequipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. This is the year, 1944. Much has happened since the triumphs of 1940 and 41. The United Nations has inflicted upon the g
I may say, of the extent to which that history is being taught in our schools and colleges. Particularly in our schools. The ignorance of the history of our country and particularly of its military history is being widely ignored and thats got to be fixed. And one of the best people to fix it, of course, is our speaker this morning, alex kershaw. We feel in this 75th year of the anniversary of dday, particularly close to what we call the greatest generation, on memorial day we honored americans who had paid the supreme sacrifice in all of our wars. But weve always felt a particular closeness to what we call the greatest generation many of whom are slowly passing from the scene. Steven ambrose, biographer said the quality of character that we impute to them is one which has grown increasingly rare in our culture. Namely, modesty. More than one of these gentlemen is said to me that when people thank him for his service, he is embarrassed. He thanks them for their thanks. But what else wo
Birwood, where were standing, and mendota, on the other side of the wall. The federal government in 1934 had passed the First National housing act which will help workingclass people get home mortgages. Its part of roosevelts new deal. National housing act. Its going to create the federal Housing Administration and the homeowners loan corporation. This will help streamline loans and make it more accessible during the Great Depression for people to get a home loan. Here. Ere are some issues one of the issues is to get one of these home loans, the federal Housing Administration states that the neighborhood has to be racially homogeneous, which means that people have to be from the same racial and ethnic group. They do not believe that a neighborhood is stable if it is integrated, so they wont give loans if the neighborhood is integrated. So theres a problem this is ng to help create neighborhoods that have been integrated are going to become segregated and whole new neighborhoods are goi
Rockies into nebraska with strong thunderstorms likely near omaha. Protesters are calling for an end to horse racing in california. The others over the great lakes and thats hitting ohio and. Animal rights activists demonstrated at the santa anita park. Pendleton, indiana, about 30 miles northeast of indianapolis, was hit hard. This one day after yet another horse died at the park on nd. Officials are fill assessing the damage but most roads are closed because of down trees and that atheedra system did more damage as it moved east. Overnight dangerous storms and just december. Santa anita Officials Say they violent winds ripped through the have no plans to suspend racing northwest. A tornado just hit our house. And insist the track is safe. In dayton, ohio, catastrophic the Los Angeles County district scenes of destruction after a suspected tornado left this neighborhood in ruins. Attorney has created a task force to investigate the deaths. Overseas now, a second oh my god. American cl
Things appear clearing up this morning thankfully. All that after a dusting of snow we got yesterday but you can still feel that winter chill in the air. Gary, are we going to get more or will it go away . In terms of the snow, i think thats all gone and you know what, too, i think really the big headline this morning is were still going o be cool today but look, coming our way i think were going to be trending warmer around here the next several days and it does look like before this warmer trend goes away, we may actually touch 60 degrees again before well, over the next couple days or so. Let me show you whats happening. Basically a warmer trend begins today. Temperatures will be in the upper 40s and the low 50s. Temperatures right now are kind of cold but you know what, some of these numbers have been going up a little bit during the overnight. Actually last hour it was a lot warmer than it is in places now. Right now with this clearing skies, the sun is coming up, thats very, very