Flywrite
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As I write this my neighbors are cutting their grass, my kids are trying to get a dollar a glass for lemonade, my wife is getting ready to get in the pool. In North Carolina my mother is putting out the first Christmas displays at her Hallmark store and in my native England my friends and relatives are getting ready for dinner or perhaps a Saturday night on the town.
This happy little world I inhabit was made possible in large part by the 136,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers who landed on the beaches of Normandy 60 years ago tomorrow. They came from cities and farms, from money and poverty, but all knew they had a job to do and that the road home was through Berlin. To them it was a battle in a war; to us, with the benefit of history’s perspective, it was the beginning of the ultimate battle to retake our civilization from the forces of evil. As Eisenhower put it on that gray morning, it was nothing short of a Crusade.
So as you go about your business in freedom today and as you lay down to rest this night take a moment to remember those brave, scared young men. Remember that sixty years ago tonight they boarded their Higgins Boats, their Dakotas, their Wacos and Horsas. They went knowing that many of their number would not see another night fall, but still they went. There are few of them remaining now, and soon they will be gone forever, so make sure your children and their children remember them and their story.
As President Clinton remarked on June 6th a decade ago “Let us never forget that when they were young, these men saved the world”.
This happy little world I inhabit was made possible in large part by the 136,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers who landed on the beaches of Normandy 60 years ago tomorrow. They came from cities and farms, from money and poverty, but all knew they had a job to do and that the road home was through Berlin. To them it was a battle in a war; to us, with the benefit of history’s perspective, it was the beginning of the ultimate battle to retake our civilization from the forces of evil. As Eisenhower put it on that gray morning, it was nothing short of a Crusade.
So as you go about your business in freedom today and as you lay down to rest this night take a moment to remember those brave, scared young men. Remember that sixty years ago tonight they boarded their Higgins Boats, their Dakotas, their Wacos and Horsas. They went knowing that many of their number would not see another night fall, but still they went. There are few of them remaining now, and soon they will be gone forever, so make sure your children and their children remember them and their story.
As President Clinton remarked on June 6th a decade ago “Let us never forget that when they were young, these men saved the world”.
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