48 Of My Comrades Are Buried There // D-Day 75 WWII Normandy Battlefield Return

gather round real quick he's got something really important to say I want to hear a pin drop stop moving stop moving gather round it's really really important okay okay hold on get your ass in the water this feels like the old days I was always fearful of going back rid of the demons and I had a talk over that however in the first couple of years I said at my age I'm ready for anything he hasn't been back in 75 years I mean it's pretty amazing today to go in to save America decency 30,000 people there just to shake your hand just to say hi and it's so important that you guys know after 75 years we don't forget I see that in my mind I could happen just we thank you for everything you have done for us you sacrifice your life to serve our world and to give us back our freedom thanks to your brave acts we can work again on this Naaman Beach we owe you more than Thanks you're a real hero [Music] wave after wave without question without hesitation completely these men ran through the fires of hell moved by a force no weapon could destroy the fierce patriotism of a free proud and sovereign be [Music] I've never forgotten and you're with me I know of 48 of my comrades dear Ralph Courtney Amos Savoy every younger this is so precious to be with them bring you guys back here is such a blessing such an honor it means a lot glad you guys are here without the game of football I will never have this opportunity in this platform to do what I'm doing let's bring all you guys back here to be together with your brothers all you guys were here during the war together you guys know what it's about to be part of a team to be part of a brotherhood because of you guys we can live in this country breathe [Music] [Applause] you have the chance like we're taken out of salt and and take a look there become emotional and all the promises out there each one of them was a human being he wanted to live - they were mostly young men 18 19 honey were than boys they died on the beaches of Normandy across France Germany unity they never lived to love the marry a woman or feel the joy of a newborn baby in their eyes he never lived old age but millions of people did live and live in freedom because of the sacrifices of the American and the Allied fighting man of 75 years ago free men of the greatest generation [Music] the soldiers sometimes has to go through things that people don't know that and a lot of times we don't bother to tell them [Music] we also done something that would have felt impossible if you told me what she's going to do I just said they came to in cost me that was just coming in loans he send up here by first objection that Lois gun emplacement how does it feel to be here again not like it felt the first time Josiah shared with our usual hundred same block instantly sometimes I still feel like he won't like that it's not gonna be true I wish you'd go away you should go away [Music] [Music] I don't feel myself or you know I feel there all the heroes I have four broad stars I have five battle campaigns through presidential citations but you know what there's a hero here today that one a Titan less Tunney for what you've got you were my life to come back to her you don't know how much I love you for that daughter this is the high life for my life and if the bad man ever comes again we're coming back to take care of you

Channel: Best Defense Foundation

Views: 3,183,503

Keywords: wwii, normandy, dday, operation overlord, goruck, trump, veterans, military, omaha beach, utah beach, utah beach d-day, 75th anniversary of d-day, normandy 75th anniversary, world war 2, military training, battlefield return d-day 75, battlefield return, world war ii, d day 75, d-day 75, d day 75th anniversary, best defense foundation, band of brothers, paratroopers, easy company, airborne, trump doing something good, what good has trump done, what trump said about veterans

Id: BtmrQ6s-DY0

Length: 6min 58sec (418 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 15 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/DoritoEnthusiast]

because of these magnificent men we are able to live today in a world free of a racist totalitarian regime.

[u/GermanAlex1999]

Made me shed a tear or two..

[u/obesekid69]

whos cutting fucking onions, i swear to god i'll fuck you up

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