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the president is going to be here at 0.2 hawk, which is a very symbolic, poignant, emotional place in american history and really world history. this is where 225 us army rangers scaled the cliffs to take out german artillery positions where they were positioned to be firing on omaha and utah beaches, just as those allied forces were arriving on d-day, there s going to be at least one veteran from the us army here present when the president makes his remarks, and that is going to be john ward del, he arrived here in the days following d-day and present biden is going to tell the story through the lens of mr. ward, del and other current us army rangers who will be present to talk about the example that was set in world war ii and how the the us and the world owe it to those veterans and to those current service members to carry on on that tradition of defending democracy worldwide. now, other themes are going to be the
into the late 30s as well well, 40 years ago when ronald reagan went over, there, you gave these two remarkable speeches, one at 0.2 hoc where he talked about the us army second rangers, these highly trained special ops who climbed 100 foot cliffs to decimate the 155 millimeter french blasting guns that were towering over the point in pill boxes. and by wiping out those guns, those rangers saved a lot of lives at omaha and utah beaches on when reagan came and he gave a speech of a lifetime, peggy noonan wrote it he gave a second speech that tony dolan wrote on omaha beach and these are kind of clarion calls those two reagan speeches for democracy in europe reagan spoke about the liberation of western europe. but we now have to liberate eastern europe and lo and behold, not many years after his normandy speeches in
fact that they were heroes here that day does not absolve us from what we have to do today democracy has never guaranteed every generation must preserve it, defended, and fight for it the cliffs that biden will stand on today were captured from the germans on d-day by us army rangers, men immortalized by reagan in his address from that spot in 1984 behind me as a memorial that symbolizes the range of daggers that were thrusted at the top of these cliffs. and before me the man who put them there these are the boys of quinta. whoa the boys appointed to hook. he says, a senior administration official telling cnn, quote, there s no way there s not going to be comparisons to reagan s speech 40 years ago we in america have learned bitter lessons from two world wars it is better to be here ready to protect the peace