stop where 80 years ago u.s. army rangers scaled the cliffs overlooking omaha and utah beaches as allied forces helped turn the tide of world war ii. >> to believe, to require something bigger of ourselves, so democracy begins with each of us. it begins when one person decides there's something more important than themselves. as we gather here today, it's not just to honor those who showed such remarkable bravery on that day, june 6th, 1944. it's to listen to the echoes of their voices, to hear them because they are summoning us, and they're summoning us now. they ask us what will we do? they're not asking us to scale these cliffs, but they're asking us to stay true to what america stands for. >> that speech came just hours after biden met with ukrainian president zelenskyy in paris