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
course it did come some two months after putin had annexed crimea, the beginning of putin s land-grabbing europe, that at the time, the leaders hoped would stopper crimea and actually be repelled. and so i remember then taking him off into some fancy lunch and trying to have a piece of gathering whereby they tried to bring the beginnings of the minsk accords, so to speak, which was meant to deliver peace between russia and ukraine. obviously, it didn t work out and it failed and we saw what happened with the full-scale invasion some two years ago now into its into its third year. so putin did not come five years ago because again, in the full throes of his invasion of eastern ukraine and crimea. and he said definitely was not welcome this year, but again, to go back to ronald reagan in 1984, then at the height of the cold war, in that phenomenal speech, he delivered from you hall, which is the top of the massive cliff that the army rangers, the