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
kind of how this has all changed. i want to remind everyone what ronald reagan, of course, the republican party for so much of my career was always centered itself as the party of ronald reagan, one of the things that he warned us about when he was present in the united states in 1984 was isolationism, which is of course, as steven notes resurgent here, potentially around the globe. here was ronald reagan in 1984 we in america have learned bitter lessons from two world wars it is better to be here ready to protect the piece than to take blind shelter across the sea rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. we ve learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments within expansionist intent reagan speaking from the same site where joe biden, president biden tomorrow, we ll speak about the importance of