Ronald Reagan's D-Day Commemoration

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Frederick Douglass delivers a searing speech on the Fourth of July, summoning the nation to remedy the contradiction between slavery and the founding principles of the United States. 

On this episode of Our American Stories, Young Army Rangers scaled Normandy cliffs under rifle fire and grenade blasts. Why did they do it? Hear President Reagan celebrate the surviving Rangers at the site, near the monument to the daggers they drove in to top the walls of Hitler ...  Show more

80th anniversary of D-Day. Eisenhower's D-Day address to troops. Reagan's 1984 Normandy speech.  WWII vet tells Fox News he "feels like a foreigner in his own country." Dems, Biden compare Nazi threat to Trump. Video of Biden looking lost and bent over at Normandy goes viral. Tru ...  Show more

On June 6th 1944, the allied forces landed on the Omaha Beach in Normandy, breaking through the Nazi’s Atlantic wall. At huge cost they turned the tide of World War II and began the liberation of Europe: a moment of time forever immortalised as D-Day. US President Joe Biden and F ...  Show more

This week we mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, a turning point in history, and a triumph of democracy over tyranny. Today, with war raging again in Europe, its legacy is more important than ever. We start the show with actor Tom Hanks, who has been pivotal in bring ...  Show more