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Biden urges Americans to be ‘keepers’ of D-Day mission, digs at Trump and Putin during speech
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1:01Now PlayingPresident Biden urged Americans Friday to honor those who stormed the beaches of Normandy 80 years before by working “to ensure that our democracy endures and the soul of our nation endures.”
The 81-year-old’s remarks were in part a eulogy of the 225 Army Rangers who stormed the Pointe du Hoc promontory on June 6, 1944, capturing a crucial German position during Operation Overlord — and in part an attempt to claim their legacy against Biden’s great rival Donald Trump, though the incumbent did not mention the presumptive GOP nominee by name.
“We’re the fortunate heirs of the legacy of these heroes, those who scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc,” Biden said. “But we will just also be the keepers of their mission.”
“To come here simply to remember the ghosts of Pointe du Hoc isn’t enough,” he went on. “We have need to hear them. We have to listen to them…. We need to make the solemn vow to never let them down.”
Biden noted that he was “the first president to come to Pointe du Hoc when none of those 225 brave men who scaled this cliff on D-Day are still alive — none.
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