Martha, as we watch this, and we are reminded what happened 80 years ago today, there in normandy, where so many thousands of americans just ran into essentially a buzz saw. 50,000 germans waiting for them. and killed so many. martha: absolutely. i would just point out you were talking earlier about the ronald reagan speech which happened at the 40th anniversary. this is a real book end. they recognized at the white house then this would be the first time a 40th anniversary many of these men were retiring from their jobs and might be likely to come to this reunion. and now you have 80 years after the. steve: martha. martha: after the storming of the beaches. yes. steve: pardon the zuption interruption. emmanuel macron has shifted to english. martha: absolutely, let s hear it. great generation. [speaking french]
The situation in gaza with macron, same recently that france was ready to recognize a palestinian state essentially a break with the us position, which has said that that should be reached through negotiated process. so there are certainly moments of difference between these two liters and they re going to be discussing all of those things later today at a state visit. but for today, it is the purpose of standing shoulder to shoulder themselves. the other world leaders who are here and of course ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy whose presence here itself is symbolic of the fight at hand and a unity that these leaders are trying to keep together. despite the fact that now it has been years, they have been funding and fighting funding for the fighting in ukraine. and that fight of course, will continue for the foreseeable future. i believe president macron is now speaking in english to the audience there at normally lives listening experiments shown the norm and further limit higher cism vw isi hello
brian: generation same word in english and french. going back and forth jewing jazzer size. steve: martha you were saying? able to make the first time. most of the them the first time ever they have been back. now you have them 80 years later perhaps for the very last time. interested in what pete was saying about the boys. you know, they were boys. that s why reagan talked about the boys of pointe du hoc. the next line is the men who scaled the cliffs they did become men in this. extraordinary men watching this play out today. brian: we understand defense secretary lloyd austin is going to be making his way to the stage right now after emmanuel
Landing craft on to a beach into enemy fire because he has chosen to lie about his age so he can go serve his country? i mean, and that s a product of families, of churches, of an education system that poured into those young men. lawrence: that s right. pete: so they understood service is something greater than themselves. we have to ask ourselves this right now. can we muster that same fortitude. brian: scribbled anti-american phrases in stanford. pete: can we muster that. that s a key question. if a republican can t muster that how do they defend themselves? ainsley: lloyd austin you saw him on stage. steve: he will be speaking in english. ainsley: video presentation after that. and then our president will speak. reading of the watch. the taps. gun salute and flyover. steve: somebody there right now is our own martha mccallum, the host of the story you see in the afternoons
Generalize our drove to the english town of newberry to visit paratroopers. hundred and first airborne there were men from all over america was estimated that 80% of them would be killed within hours. that was the estimate. but there were brave they re resolute and they were ready one soldier told general eisenhower, quote, don t worry, sir, sir but hundred and first is on the job everything will be taken care of that s what he said and because of their courage and their resolve, here s the courage resolve, of their allies it was taking care of from the sea and sky nearly 160,000 allied troops to descended on normally many state the obvious never came
distinguished guests, please rise if you are able as we salute those memor lied here and stay standing for the playing of taps and departure of the official party. [speaking noneng -enon-english]
Utah beach, which is the other one from omaha beach, which is the one then linked up with the paratroopers of the hundred and first airborne division with which i was assigned. at the time in the 82nd, which i served in multiple other times flying across the english channel, willed extraordinary. the truth is that most of our paratroopers and most of us in general are there to have a good time we had been billeted the nights before it english airbases that had actually from which the paratroopers of d-day had flown but as we flew across the channel, it was as if the weight of history descended on our shoulders because we realized that the magnitude of what it was these paratroopers did in jumping in during the period of darkness before the amphibious landings. and all that was riding on them and help parallel is it really was if you look back now and say, oh, that was inevitable, it was not inevitable. this is an incredible undertaking. general eisenhower described it rightly. he said to the men and women who are going to take part in it, you are about to embark upon the
To call on the american battle monuments commission to place flowers that she paid for on her father s grave at normandy. people walk into the center the terrorists, they see these flowers and they know that there s somebody at home, it s still cares and it worked beautifully for 60 plus years. it was almost seamless we contacted the a bmc filled out a form, sent them the money, and then they took it from there. but nine years ago, the a bmc shut down the flower fund encouraging families to instead go directly to florists overseas. if you contact the floors by phone, there s definitely language barrett because most people in those countries don t speak english very well. the other than deal still take a picture and send it to us. but the price is higher for nearly a decade. rondi elliott and other goldstar children the children of these men, had been on a mission of their own to get that flowers program back up and running. they now have
99 year old veteran from the united states and he said he remembers how cold it was, how seasick he was when he landed in normandy and just how nervous he was about the enormity of the task before him. but he said he was happy that he could help and be here today. and i will pass back to you now because i believe emmanuel macron might be about to speak in english. macron might be about to speak in enalish. . ~ macron might be about to speak in enalish. ., ~ i. he speaks in french studio: he is talking about these men of a different generation and what they have done for the freedom of the world. for you who are here,
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