keep talking they re not a hero. i just did my job the real heroes laying here on a cemetery deja heroes she d never forgive them 46 president in the united states of america, joseph r. biden jr. here biden, junior nearly calm monday june 5 5, 1944 the evil fairly third reich was devastated the world nazi germany had subjugated and wants three nations of europe through brute, force lives and twisted ideology of racial superiority millions of jews murdered in the holocaust millions of others killed by bombs molars bloody warfare. hitler and those with them thought democracies were week at the future, belonged to dictators here the coast of normandy. the battle between freedom and tyranny would be joined here on that june morning, the testing was at hand president macron mrs. macron, secretary austin, secretary blinken, distinguished guest most of all our honored veterans who met that test, the ages a test of ages to that moment. 80 years ago 80 years ago today we have
and the other three had varying degrees of frankly, not success see those three center. well, two slight corrections there. if i may, john, this is actually called starship, sorry for the views of yesterday s loss details some slack right? starliner starship. i ve been making that mistake yesterday s launch was a boeing s starliner. this is spacex s starship. this is the rocket that is designed to land american nasa astronauts on the surface of the moon for the first time since the end of the apollo program back in 1972, someday, it is also hopefully going to be used to allow humanity to colonize mars. or that is at least elon musk s dream so what you re watching right now is the fourth flight test of this vehicle. the first two ended in rather early explosions, but the last flight test, flight test three, which we saw just about
two-and-a-half months ago, was a resounding success yes. both the booster and the spaceship landing ended in an explosion, but you have to remember this is a flight test. the goal of that test was just to see if it could get into orbit and it did that and it gave us some incredible live images along the way for about an hour long this flight test, the goal is to go one step further. they want to get starship into orbit. but the key thing here is they want to see if it can survive those extremely high temperatures on re-entry. so what we re going to see, hopefully is first, if the booster can splash down safely somewhere in the gulf of mexico, the boosters, the thing that propels starship into space and then after about an hour, we re going to see if starship can actually do a controlled re-entry into the earth s back into the earth s atmosphere survived those high temperatures dual a little belly flip and then land a very
has never guaranteed every generation must preserve it, defended, and fight for it that s the test of the ages in memory of those who fought here died here literally save the world here let us be worthy of their sacrifice let us be the generation that when history is written about our time in 10203058 years from now, it ll be said when the moment came we met the moment. we stood strong. our alliances were made stronger we save democracy in our time as well thank you very much. and may god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you with us today.
of president biden it seemed an attempt to refocus the nation s attention on the idea of shared sacrifice, which is so lacking and lost and gone. in so much today do you know what i think kate were the most important and telling leinz of biden s speech just then, among many powerful leinz, was this one. the fact that they were heroes speaking of the d-day veterans and those who lost their lives does not absolve us of what we must do today the us is very good at ceremony, we re very good at memorializing the great events of our history, both at official ceremonies like this one, but in the movies, i mean, there s a world more to movie or two or three every year that celebrates that victory and celebrates that test met biden is making the argument and he s not alone in this. that the us and its allies are being tested. again in ukraine and with threats from russia beyond ukraine and from