that is just so incredible to really contemplate and digest. and then the last thing i suppose is to remember that in horror and the chaos and the destruction of world war ii, it was america, again with the marshall plan that invested in building back their enemies building by germany into one of the greatest democracies in the world, building back and helping japan, the enemy from the pacific, into a solid asian democracy. and that makes these, this alliance so huge. he's right by them. that is the biggest military alliance in the world because it spans the entire length and breadth from the american continent to the pacific. and so this is all what they're remembering, what they're commemorating, and what we all have to be up to to actually preserve for the future because the challenges are not just not over, they are as dangerous as ever, right now. >> because as the president noted, dark, dark forces, he