Biden Warns Of Threats To Democracy In D-Day Speech

CBS News reports:

President Biden and key U.S. allies were in Normandy Thursday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S.-led allied forces’ D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France. The brazen air and sea invasion would mark the beginning of the end of World War II, leading to the defeat of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi German forces in Europe less than a year later.

“What the allies did here 80 years ago, far surpassed anything we could have done on our own,” Mr. Biden said in remarks Thursday. “Together, we won the war.”

“The men who fought here became heroes — given an audacious mission, knowing the probability of dying was real,” he said. “But they did it anyway, knowing without a doubt there are things worth fighting and dying for. Freedom, worth it. Democracy worth it. America worth it. Then, now and always.”

Politico reports:



Acknowledging that soon “the last living voices of those who fought and bled on D-Day will no longer be with us,” Biden urged America not to forget the lesson that the postwar democratic order was worth fighting for. “We cannot let what happened here be lost in the silence of the years to come,” Biden said. “The fact that they were heroes here that day does not absolve us of what we have do today.”

The coalition of countries backing Ukraine “will not walk away,” Biden promised, warning that “all of Europe will be threatened” should Ukraine fall. “The autocrats of the world are watching closely … to surrender to bullies, to bow down to dictators, is simply unthinkable.” “The greatest generation ever man,” he remarked to one veteran, who told the president he was 102. “You saved the world,” he said to another, bending down to look into his eyes from close range.