Here is but a portion, please read the remaining and remember who we are as Americans. You all knew that some things are worth dying for. Ones country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because its the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you. The Americans who fought here that morning knew word of the invasion was spreading through the darkness back home. They fought -- or felt in their hearts, though they couldnt know in fact, that in Georgia they were filling the churches at 4:00 am. In Kansas they were kneeling on their porches and praying. And in Philadelphia they were ringing the Liberty Bell. Something else helped the men of D-day; their rock-hard belief that Providence would have a great hand in the events that would unfold here; that God was an ally in this great cause. And so, the night before the invasion, when Colonel Wolverton asked his parachute troops to kneel with him in prayer, he told them: Do not bow your heads, but look up so you can see God and ask His blessing in what were about to do. Also, that night, General Matthew Ridgway on his cot, listening in the darkness for the promise God made to Joshua: I will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States of America Read more: realclearpolitics/articles/2013/06/06/the_boys_of_pointe_du_hoc_96877.html#ixzz2kMFmb6uJ Follow us: @RCP_Articles on Twitter
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:16:39 +0000
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