Remembering D-Day: What They Said-- Part 1

From the June 2019 AARP Bulletin:  "Remembering D-Day."

WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT D-DAY

**   "Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!  You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade....  The eyes of the world are upon you."

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, letter to the troops.

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**  They fight not for the lust of conquest.  They fight to end conquest.  They fight to liberate."

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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**  "You get your ass on the beach.  I'll be there waiting for you and I'll tell you what to do.  There ain't anything in this plan that is going to go right."

Col. Paul R. Goode to his troops before D-Day

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--GreGen