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nature of the place and what it meant to come on shore and that invasion and what happened in the months that followed. and you know, i was doing a little homework, a little history homework as we ve been watching these images, the gallup poll, one of the things that s so great about the gallup poll is that it s existed an awfully long time including way back when gallup actually surveyed americans not long before the d-day invasion, about world war ii and found that four out of ten americans said they didn t actually have a clear idea of what the us was fighting for. we look back on it now and think that this moment must have had such clarity, such unanimity that those americans at those time, that time in our country were like, yeah, let s do it. but actually there was a lot of confusion then among a segment of the population about why this was in the us interests what objectives could