President Obama heads to France to celebrate 65th Anniversary of D-Day Invasion
Saturday, June 6, 2009
D-Day was marked a very solemn occasion on its 65th anniversary. In a stop at Omaha Beach, France, President Obama recalled the "unimaginable hell" and suffering that took place at that time. On Saturday, President Obama paid homage to all the Allied troops that landed on the beach that broke Nazi Germany's grip on France.
Because it was unlikely that the Allies of the United states could pull off such a victory, President Obama stated "The sheer improbability of this victory is part of what makes D-Day so memorable."
That fateful beach 65 years ago was the landing site where American, British and Canadian soldiers established a beachhead while taking a pounding by Nazi troops who waited for the Allies to arrive. They were shooting at them like they were having target practice. But the mere size and strength of the Allied forces overtook the Nazi's and they were able to take hold of the beaches and inland territories that were eventually the beginning of the fall of Nazi Germany. Something drastic as the landing by Allied forces was needed to begin to turn the tide of the war.
Obama visited an American battlefield museum with his wife, Michelle; laid a wreath in honor of the fallen; greeted U.S. military members; and mingled with uniformed World War II veterans.
President Obama said the lessons of that pivotal effort are eternal.
"Friends and veterans, what we cannot forget — what we must not forget — is that D-Day was a time and a place where the bravery and selflessness of a few was able to change the course of an entire century," he said.
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