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
democracy central. that s all right, gcn, that side is actually we do have where the rangers attacked the nazi positions at a particularly really difficult area because of the huge cliffs that were there and the isolationism that reagan spoke, spoke about is really the type of thing that i think affected a lot of the people during the world war ii generation because what they were looking at was they had been isolated because of tendencies in us politics during the 1920s and 30s but then they had to risk respond to a threat. and that thread in a world that wasn t as connected as our world was still felt, even here on the shores of the united states, reagan s generation ended up recognizing that and reagan saw his opportunity as being a way to really we not only remind people of the fight against nazism, but also the fight at that time against communism. he, and he saw those tyrannies is being in essence somewhat
IN A TOUCHING tribute to the late Joe Drennan, Irish folk artist Emma Langford and journalist Molly Cantwell have come together to release a Christmas charity s.