CSPAN3 President Clinton At D-Day 50th Anniversary July 4, 2014
We stand on sacred soil. 50 years ago at this place, a miracle of liberation began. On that morning, democracys forces landed to end the enslavement of europe. Around 7 00 a. M. Unit colonel james early rutter, second ranger battalion United States army, led 224 men on to the beaches below and up these unforgiving cliffs. Bullets and grenades came down upon them, but by a few minutes after 7 00, here, exactly here, the first rangers stood. Today, let us ask those american heroes to stand again. Corporal ken barringman who sits here to my right was one of them. He had just celebrated his 20th b...
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