This week, in big cities and small towns throughout this country, we have seen America's courage, imagination, and unbeatable determination. Americans of every color, race, and creed. American civilians and American law enforcement officers.
Roughly ten months before Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death elevated Harry S. Truman to the Presidency of the United States, the man who succeed Truman as Commander-in-Chief, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and who was then the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, commanded the Allied forces whose campaign to liberate France from Nazi Germany began on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Historians estimate that on June 6, 1944 alone, more than 2,500 American servicemen were killed.
American courage, imagination, and unbeatable determination carried the day at Normandy and approximately fourteen months later, a war that had raged across the globe for more than six years ended with the unconditional surrender, first, of Nazi Germany, and, thereafter, Japan.
Seventy-six years ago today, Americans changed the world...
President Reagan - 40th Anniversary D-Day
Normandy, France June 6, 1984
...and are ready to do so again.
-AK
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