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June 6, 2024, will mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings along the Normandy coastline during World War II. On this day in 1944, almost 130,000 Allied troops landed in Nazi-occupied France, including 73,000 Americans, 60,000 Brits and 15,000 Canadians. The D-Day attack altered the course of World War II in favor of the Allies and was the largest amphibious assault in world history.
Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor Newt Gingrich acknowledges the remarkable complexity of the D-Day invasion and emphasizes the importance of remembering this day.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
Once again, we have a chance to be reminded when free people are prepared to stand up and do what is necessary, then safety, freedom, prosperity follow. But when they fail to meet the challenges, then you end up in the horrifying position we were of having to reopen, to liberate, to go back into France, which should never have fallen, and [to] defeat a Nazi Germany which should never have existed.
I think it’s important to take dates like this, recognize how [much of a] big deal they are, how much they teach us about reality, how much they teach us about our own time, and why it is necessary for a free country to be much stronger than the dictatorships that threaten it.
