Sixty-six years ago, today June 6, 1944, the Allies stormed the beach at
Normandy to free Europe from Axis control. Today, Gov. Palin wrote
about the Anniversary in a brief Facebook Note, including an excerpt of
speech from President Reagan who spoke at the 40th anniversary of D-Day.
Today, on the 66th Anniversary of D-Day, let’s remember the courage and
sacrifice of our Greatest Generation whose actions helped liberate a continent.
I’d like to share with you excerpts
from President
Reagan’s beautiful speech on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day honoring the
Rangers who took the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc:
“Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were
thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them
here. These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the
cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the
heroes who helped end a war. Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words
of Stephen Spender’s poem. You are men who in your “lives fought for life and
left the vivid air singed with your honor.”….
Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You
were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than
boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked everything
here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for
self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all
the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the
answer. It was faith and belief. It was loyalty and love.
The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith
that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy
on this beachhead, or on the next. It was the deep knowledge — and pray God we
have not lost it — that there is a profound moral difference between the use of
force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to
liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause.
And you were right not to doubt.
You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is
worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply
honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All
of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries
were behind you.” – Ronald Reagan
May we never forget the sacrifices made for liberty.
- Sarah Palin
http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin#!/notes/sarah-palin/remembering-d-day/396451853434
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