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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold in the States. Good morning to you, morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Quite the scene, wasn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So the president spoke of the dangers of isolationism

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Speaker 2: and the need to protect and nurture democracy. January the sixth,

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty four. That president was Republican Ronald Reagan, who

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Speaker 2: marked the fortieth anniversary of D Day, the Allied invasion

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Speaker 2: that liberated France and went on to defeat Hitler and

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Speaker 2: his cohorts everywhere. On this day, on this eightieth anniversary

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Speaker 2: of the D Day landings, there were one hundred and

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Speaker 2: eighty surviving Vets of Normandy participating. They're mostly one hundred

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Speaker 2: years old or more. A few were able to walk

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Speaker 2: under their own power now. Others came in wheelchairs, but

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Speaker 2: then many struggled to their feet as French President Macron

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Speaker 2: kissed them and pinned medals to their coats, with some

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Speaker 2: of these men in tears, those experiences remain. One hundred

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Speaker 2: and three year old Floyd Bear says this is his

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Speaker 2: last trip to the Normandy beaches. There's a pilot in

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Speaker 2: nineteen forty four and says what he saw as he

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Speaker 2: flew his cover mission on that day was a scene

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Speaker 2: that appeared to show every ship and boat in the

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Speaker 2: world approaching the French coast. That'll be about right. Veteran

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Speaker 2: Dick Rung was nineteen when he was on a tank

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Speaker 2: lander that came into Omaha Beach. He recalls hosing down

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Speaker 2: the human blood from the deck. He says, quote, two

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Speaker 2: of the soldiers got badly hit. We couldn't save them,

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Speaker 2: but we covered them with blankets and the blankets soaked

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Speaker 2: up their blood. Finding the skipper said we can't leave

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Speaker 2: it like this, so we got out the fire hose

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Speaker 2: and washed down the deck of the blood. I was

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Speaker 2: only a kid, and most of us were too. I

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Speaker 2: wasn't trained for this, he says. His craft stayed in

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Speaker 2: Normandy for almost five months, transporting troops, supplies, and vehicles

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Speaker 2: to the shore. He then went off to the Pacific Theater,

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Speaker 2: where he often spoke of the brutality of war, saying,

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Speaker 2: I am a peacemaker. I'm not going to do this again.

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Speaker 2: At Point to Hok where Prinsident Reagan later spoke, Usamy

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Speaker 2: Rangers scaled the steep cliffs while under German machine gun fire.

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Speaker 2: In the audience today who were also were actor Tom

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Speaker 2: Hanks and director Stephen Spielberg, of course, made the searing

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Speaker 2: movie Saving Private Ryan, and since have been documenting the

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Speaker 2: lives of World War II vets. President Biden has delivered

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Speaker 2: a powerful address linking the Allied effort on D Day

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Speaker 2: with the challenges posed right now by the Russian invasion

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Speaker 2: in Ukraine, whose President Zelinsky also is on hand.

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Speaker 3: The struggle between the dictatorship and freedom is ending here

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Speaker 3: in Europe. We see one stark example. Ukraine has been

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Speaker 3: invaded by a tyrant been on domination. Ukrainians are fighting

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Speaker 3: with extraordinary curves. The United States and NATO and a

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Speaker 3: coalition of more than fifty countries stany strong with Ukraine.

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Speaker 3: We will not walk away.

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Speaker 2: Then, in a separate interview, Biden spoke of Russia's Putin,

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Speaker 2: whom he said he has known for some forty years.

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Speaker 4: He's not a decent man.

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Speaker 3: He's a dictator, and he's struggling to make sure he

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Speaker 3: houlds this country together while still keeping this a sualt

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Speaker 3: cone it.

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Speaker 2: Biden will deliver another statement at Point to Hog this weekend,

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Speaker 2: then returned to Europe for the g seventh summit in Italy.

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Speaker 2: He will also make a stop at Below Woods near Paris.

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Speaker 2: Where many American troops killed in World War One are married.

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Speaker 2: Six years ago, while he was president, Donald Trump canceled

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Speaker 2: a visit infamously to that ceremony at the cemetery because

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Speaker 2: of bad weather. That led a grandson of Winston Churchill

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Speaker 2: at the time to lash out, saying, quote, they died

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Speaker 2: with their face to the foe, and Trump couldn't even

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Speaker 2: defy the weather.

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Speaker 1: All right, mate, me have a good week. Can we'll

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Speaker 1: catchup next week. Appreciate it very much, Richard Donald state side.

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Speaker 1: That's an interview, by the way, is getting headlines for

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Speaker 1: other reasons. He's talking about ABC's news anchor David Muir.

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Speaker 4: He claims, this, listen, I've known him for for forty years.

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Speaker 4: He's concerned me for forty years. He's not a decent man.

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Speaker 4: He's a dictator and he's struggling to make sure he

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Speaker 4: houls this country together.

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Speaker 1: Problem is, of course, he refers to Putney hasn't done

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Speaker 1: him forty years, and he hasn't been worried about him

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Speaker 1: for forty years because the better part of the eighties,

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Speaker 1: which takes him there forty year period, he was of

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Speaker 1: course an undercover KGP intelligence officer, so he wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: known of him at all, and there is a growing,

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Speaker 1: once again laissent among some of the American media that

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Speaker 1: this guy's not all there and that needs to be

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Speaker 1: addressed more and more before the election.

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