president trump is true, and that he is going to reinforce the american commitment to the alliance and to the alliances that have help keep the world at least as stable as it is these last 74 years after the end of world war ii. that s what i hope. and i hope that he will keep us out of war because we never want to see any conflagration like this again. we appreciate you joining us, especially considering howie motional it can be to be visiting a place like normandy and having your own personal experiences as well. so we thank you for that very much. the rest of our guests are going to be standing by as we await the president to arrive at this ceremony to commemorate 75 years after d-day, and what a day it was, the beginning to the end of world war ii, a six-year war against nazi germany where so many jewish people lost their lives in that war, and so many
quantities, so many men dying, that you couldn t take it any more. you became angry with them, that there would be so much killing and so much death. i don t think we have any idea in our society today what a war like that really is like. but the men who are on that stage today, they do. quickly, christopher, you mentioned your father-in-law, that he is a veteran of this war and you visiting with him. what was his experience like when he made that visit with you? well, i think it was tremendously painful for him. he was he had enlisted in the army before the outbreak of the war, before the united states entered the war. and he was in every campaign you could think of in this hemisphere. he was in the invasion of north africa, he was in the invasion of italy. d. day, he was in battle of the bulge. the most emotional moment was not here, but at a cemetery much like this near belgium where we
there was at least one fireside chat a dozen or so he did when he talked about the sacrifice that would have to come if we were to do what we needed to do to defend the republic. i think most people are convinced that this president does not have a feel for what service sacrifice means and how important it is to support the young people who are out there now. we want to thank all of our guests for joining us this hour on this very important day, celebrating d-day, the 75th anniversary of d-day, a real celebration of heroes. joe and mika are actually going to be picking up our coverage now. this is the european front once again being established in
the nato alliance. they will then lay wreaths to the fallen and meet some of the survivors. there are a few hundred survivors along this coastline, both american, british, canadian. he will meet some of those remarkable men now in their 90s. when i was here 15 years ago for the 60th anniversary there were many more. they are now a dwindling number. d-day itself is passing from living memory into history. soon the again wrageneration wi gone, the greatest generation and president trump here will have a chance to address probably the largest gathering of d-day veterans that we will see on these beaches because men in their 90s, you know, you can t really expect there to be many around for the 80th anniversary in five years time. this ceremony is about to begin. it will begin at the top of the
landscape, such a beautiful landscape to say the least. but it was not beautiful on that day 75 years ago. the weather was very much a problem on d-day 75 years ago. this was a mission that took a year or so to plan, that the president and dwight d. eisenhower didn t know they were going to go ahead with because of the weather, because of the circumstances surrounding this mission. and knowing how many lives could feasibly be lost. well, the bad news is that the germans knew we were coming. we took until 1943 to decide that we wanted an outcome of unconditional surrender, and then the germans knew that we were coming, that we were going to open up a second front. and it was going to be somewhere in france. so they had a long time to prepare. what worked in our great favor is that we did a very good job of being disingenuous. we had a cardboard fake army with cardboard tanks that we had