Speaker 1: To surrender to bullies, to bow down the dictators is
Speaker 1: simply unthinkable. Were ready to do that, it means we'd
Speaker 1: be forgetting what happened here in these hollow beaches. Make
Speaker 1: no mistake, we will not bow down. We will not forget.
Speaker 1: Let me end with this history tells us freedom is
Speaker 1: not free. If you want to know the price of freedom,
Speaker 1: come here to Normandy. Come to Normandy, and look.
Speaker 2: We have been here before. Appeasement, denihialism, a fifth column
Speaker 2: at home that, for whatever reason, denigrates our freedoms, denigrates Americanism,
Speaker 2: and warships far and fascists, whether they be Outolf Hitler
Speaker 2: in the nineteen thirties or Vladimir Putin or Victor Orbon
Speaker 2: in the twenty twenties, we are not faded. To live
Speaker 2: in freedom permanent. We cannot give up what these men
Speaker 2: paid their lives for. Americans cannot lay down their freedoms
Speaker 2: to a demagogue and a corrupted party of fascists who
Speaker 2: want power at all costs. Is it possible that the
Speaker 2: American people will decide to replace this man, the President
Speaker 2: of the United States of America, with this man, an
Speaker 2: orange tinged fascist, a convicted felon, a man found liable
Speaker 2: for rape and then for defaming the woman he raped,
Speaker 2: a serial liar, a man who ripped off every small
Speaker 2: contractor whoever had the misfortune to work for him, a
Speaker 2: conspiracy theorist, and somebody utterly incoherent on even his best days.
Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty two days remain until the American
Speaker 2: people will make the decision. This is the warning. Jute sixth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Eighty years have passed since the commencement
Speaker 2: of what is remembered by history as the Day of Days.
Speaker 2: These four beats on a kevel drum, three dots and
Speaker 2: a dash were Morse code. It stood for victory. It
Speaker 2: was the preface of every BBC broadcast, and eighty years ago,
Speaker 2: on June fifth, the BBC broadcast a message for our
Speaker 2: French friends, John has a long mustache, and with that
Speaker 2: the resistance went into action and struck. A few minutes
Speaker 2: past midnight, the first gliders carrying Major John Howard and
Speaker 2: his men of the British sixth Airborne landed to seize
Speaker 2: the bridges over the Orne River to make certain that
Speaker 2: the British troops landing on Sward Beach could make it inland,
Speaker 2: establishing a beachhead. The British landed near the bridge and
Speaker 2: secured it. They liberated the first home in France. On
Speaker 2: the west side, Americans of the eighty second Airborne in
Speaker 2: the one hundred and first Airborne began falling from the
Speaker 2: sky over Saint mary Lees, the first town to be
Speaker 2: liberated by the American Army. One hundred and twenty thousand
Speaker 2: soldiers of eleven nations stormed the beaches Utah Beach, Sword, Juno, Gold,
Speaker 2: and Omaha, the deadliest of them all. It is above
Speaker 2: that beach where the American Cemetery lies. There are nearly
Speaker 2: ten thousand graves in it. All of them face west,
Speaker 2: back towards home, back towards America, back across the ocean
Speaker 2: from which these young men crossed, but did not return home,
Speaker 2: to their wives, to their mothers, to their sisters and
Speaker 2: brothers and girlfriends. They lie there an American Army in formation,
Speaker 2: at permanent rest, in silent judgment of their sacrifice for
Speaker 2: freedom and liberty. There is a thing about remembrance that
Speaker 2: should be noted. Had there been a war that was greater,
Speaker 2: that was deadlier, survived, that the world survived, then there
Speaker 2: would not have been a commemoration at Normandy. Today, we
Speaker 2: remember the Second World War in the sacrifices and the
Speaker 2: commencement of the Battle of Normandy and the liberation of Europe,
Speaker 2: because it was history's climactic event. So far as killing goes,
Speaker 2: it has not been repeated, It has not been succeeded
Speaker 2: for almost one hundred years minus a score. The question
Speaker 2: at hand in Ukraine and Europe around the world, when
Speaker 2: we look as free people at the growing menace of
Speaker 2: the access of Iran and North Korea and Russia and China,
Speaker 2: is the confrontation one nearly a lifetime ago to be
Speaker 2: re fought in a new century. And if it is
Speaker 2: to be re fought in a new century, is it survivable?
Speaker 2: The Polish President Donald Tusk has already warned young Poles
Speaker 2: people who fought heroically and valorously during the Second World
Speaker 2: War like no other captive people, people who never gave up,
Speaker 2: who never stopped fighting. President Tusk told his nation and
Speaker 2: its young people to be ready to fight for existence,
Speaker 2: for freedom. Back in nineteen forty, when Britain was under siege,
Speaker 2: many Americans said, that wasn't our fight, it wasn't our problem.
Speaker 2: Who cares. In fact, there were scores of thousands of
Speaker 2: Americans who filled up Madison Square Garden to give the
Speaker 2: Hitler salute fascists. There were many Americans in open support
Speaker 2: of the fascist cause. There were many more indifferent to
Speaker 2: the plight of freedom. The Draft, which was necessary for
Speaker 2: the survival of the United States in nineteen forty, was
Speaker 2: sustained by the Congress by just one vote. We have
Speaker 2: been here before. Appeasement, denialism, a fifth column at home
Speaker 2: that but for whatever reason, denigrates our freedoms, denigrates Americanism,
Speaker 2: and warships foreign fascists, whether they be Outolf Hitler in
Speaker 2: the nineteen thirties or Vladimir Putin or Victor Orban in
Speaker 2: the twenty twenties. We are not faded to live in
Speaker 2: freedom permanently. That is what President Biden talked about today,
Speaker 2: and he said something that almost precisely echoed what President
Speaker 2: Reagan said forty years ago. Now, when you put President
Speaker 2: Reagan and President Biden next to each other, some people
Speaker 2: will say these two men don't belong next to each
Speaker 2: other because they were in different political parties. And that
Speaker 2: is nonsense. Both of these men, forty years apart, have
Speaker 2: delivered a seminal message, a meaningful warning. They have reminded
Speaker 2: us that there are causes greater than life itself. They
Speaker 2: reminded us that there are causes worth dying for. We
Speaker 2: remember today, on this day of freedom that we celebrate,
Speaker 2: that we thank with great gratitude did that so that
Speaker 2: we may live in freedom, and we owe them a
Speaker 2: great debt. Listen to Ronald Dragon.
Speaker 3: You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so
Speaker 3: you and those others did not doubt your cause, and
Speaker 3: you were right not to. Don't doubt. You all knew
Speaker 3: that some things are worth dying for. One's country is
Speaker 3: worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for because
Speaker 3: it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised
Speaker 3: by man. All of you loved liberty, all of you
Speaker 3: were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people
Speaker 3: of your countries were behind you.
Speaker 2: Listen to Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Everyone then knew the probability of dying was real, but
Speaker 1: they did it anyway. They knew and beyond any doubt,
Speaker 1: there are things that are worth fighting and dying for.
Speaker 1: Freedom is worth it, Democracy is worth it, America is
Speaker 1: worth it. The world is worth it, then, now and always.
Speaker 2: This is not a democratic message, It is not a
Speaker 2: republican message. It is a message of the leader of
Speaker 2: a free people. Forty years ago freedom was threatened. President
Speaker 2: Wagan talked about it.
Speaker 3: We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be
Speaker 3: an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with expansionist intent. But
Speaker 3: we try always to be prepared for peace, prepared to
Speaker 3: deter aggression, prepared to negotiate the reduction of arms, and yes,
Speaker 3: prepared to reach out again in the spirit of reconciliation.
Speaker 3: In truth, there is no reconciliation. We would will more
Speaker 3: than a reconciliation with the Soviet Union. So together we
Speaker 3: can listen lessen the risk of war now and forever.
Speaker 2: And today his successor talked about the threats to our world.
Speaker 2: Today he named the tyrant. Vladimir Putin called him out directly, forcefully, clearly.
Speaker 2: He drew the.
Speaker 1: Line, Ukraine has been invaded by a tyrant, been on domination.
Speaker 1: Ukrainians are fighting with extraordinary courage, suffering great losses, but
Speaker 1: never backing down.
Speaker 2: President Biden made clear and reminded everyone what keeps us safe,
Speaker 2: what keeps us free? Is overwhelming strength. We must remember
Speaker 2: what President Biden tried to help the country remember today,
Speaker 2: which at its core is this today was not a
Speaker 2: speech about the past. It was a speech about gratitude
Speaker 2: for our freedom and an urgent warning about the danger.
Speaker 2: We should heed it because let us do whatever we
Speaker 2: can to make sure there is no need ever for
Speaker 2: the creation of an American cemetery in Europe. Ever, again,
Speaker 2: Colon Powell beautifully pointed this out once he said, America
Speaker 2: is not a conquering nation. We came to Europe as
Speaker 2: an army of liberation, and when that war was over,
Speaker 2: the only land we asked for was enough to bury
Speaker 2: our dead. And make no mistake, it doesn't matter if
Speaker 2: you are alive when the events occurred. It doesn't matter
Speaker 2: that they occurred before your existence. This American sacrifice and
Speaker 2: achievement belongs to all Americans for all time through the ages.
Speaker 2: But that achievement occurs an obligation, and that obligation, when
Speaker 2: it comes to the memory of this day, requires deep
Speaker 2: respect and gratitude. We cannot give up what these men
Speaker 2: paid their lives for. Americans cannot lay down their freedoms
Speaker 2: to a demagogue and a corrupted party of factious who
Speaker 2: want power at all costs, including at the expense of
Speaker 2: the ideals of the nation. That's what today is about,
Speaker 2: and we should remember the lessons of history because when
Speaker 2: they are ignored, there is a fearsome price that is paid.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and I invite
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