martha. [ ] martha: thank you john and sandra thank you. good afternoon everybody i m marth maccallum this is the story. we re live from the american cemetery in normandy france where today we watch world leaders gathering to give thanks and gratitude to our greatest generation 1 man after another more than 100 and all got several rose the riveters came to her number at all. the good and the sad. and to pay tribute to the nearly 5000 who gave it all on beaches and in the hedgerows of the french countryside. they rest behind us here. bro on row. row on row. [ ] the young americans who fought to the clamour and chaos on d-day have grown old or left us. and whenever a veteran of d-day is sent to his maker in the fullness of time after a long life lived in freedom, he wins a final victory over hitler. martha: tomorrow comp republican florida congressman michael waltz and corey mills no strangers to combat would pay tribute by reenacting the airline invasion of norma
a passion for glass making that s passed down through the generations. on ancestry i was able to actually put together our family tree. each person is a glass worker. we stood on some pretty broad shoulders to get to where we are today. we ve heard some pretty amazing stories this week from world war ii heroes we ve spoken with here in normandy. you may remember but gas for my faults nation series the final journey of the greatest generation. utility then about liberating dark out and seeing jewish prisoners that they didn t know was happening really in the camps at that point. when he saw them for the first time, watch this. they told us to go up there were about 6 of us which meant walk through the woods of the
like going forward probably so but that s the guidance they ve been given. ethic it s important as well to remember and russia president vladimir putin talked about this yesterday in a press conference we re dealing with a nuclear armed power. a thing we can all agree especially paper people who love ukraine and want to see it succeed and really become potentially world war iii to become the u.s. versus rossa which russia it could be a disaster for people all across europe. martha: we are sitting here at the normandy american cemetery which makes everyone think of world war 2. when we sent ships and then ammunition we didn t put any constraints on them and we didn t say you could use the bullets in this place but not that place or use the ships this way but not that we. we said when knew what it takes to win with our help. s and the threat enough from russia and a larger sense to
make winning the bull? there are parallels certainly to what s going on in the continent of europe now to what happened in the 1940s and world war ii. they re not exactly the same situation. this is russia invaded peaceful nation next-door and a completely unprovoked and we have been aiding ukraine in terms of beating back that aggression and defending their sovereign territory and territorial integrity and we will keep doing that. martha: must take it a bit further because, you know, hitler invaded doshi claimed a german-speaking area that he wanted to be part of germany. russia president vladimir putin when this event. these are essentially russia. chamberlain in the munich agreement i believe him and that s all he wants i think after all that he will sit back. why shouldn t we learn from history about what russia president vladimir putin s designs are to go further if he
such an incredible story to tell to be able to convey this incredible experience that they went through. these kids were 18, 19, some 17. 20. we had lieutenants who were 23 or 24 years old. like it s amazing. martha: we have a lot to learn from them and i want to thank all of you for stopping by. martha: it was great to talk to them and i do think that serious was so responsible for reviving real interest in world war ii. coming up, my interview with veteran but asked who helped dilute delivery concentration camp. next. 3 or 4 and the schools are not teaching this peer and no, they are because i talk sometimes at schools to try to tell them what happened in that era.