Obama salutes veterans on D-Day's 70th anniversary
- 10 years ago
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The presidents of the U.S. and France paid tribute on Friday (June 6) to soldiers who fell in the liberation of Europe from Nazi German rule, during commemorations to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Flanked by stooped war veterans, some in wheelchairs, Barack Obama joined Francois Hollande to commemorate victory and reaffirm U.S.-French solidarity at the Normandy American Cemetery.
Obama said the 50-mile (80 km) stretch of Normandy coastline - where allied soldiers landed under fire on beaches codenamed Omaha, Utah, Gold, Sword and Juno - had been the scene of history's largest ever amphibian assault.
"It was here, on these shores, that the tide was turned in that common struggle for freedom. What more powerful manifestation of America's commitment to human freedom than the sight of wave after wave after wave of young men boarding those boats to liberate people they had never met. We say it now as if it couldn't
The presidents of the U.S. and France paid tribute on Friday (June 6) to soldiers who fell in the liberation of Europe from Nazi German rule, during commemorations to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Flanked by stooped war veterans, some in wheelchairs, Barack Obama joined Francois Hollande to commemorate victory and reaffirm U.S.-French solidarity at the Normandy American Cemetery.
Obama said the 50-mile (80 km) stretch of Normandy coastline - where allied soldiers landed under fire on beaches codenamed Omaha, Utah, Gold, Sword and Juno - had been the scene of history's largest ever amphibian assault.
"It was here, on these shores, that the tide was turned in that common struggle for freedom. What more powerful manifestation of America's commitment to human freedom than the sight of wave after wave after wave of young men boarding those boats to liberate people they had never met. We say it now as if it couldn't