We in America have learned bitter lessons from two World Wars: It is better to be here ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We’ve learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent . . .
But for now, particularly today, it is good and fitting to renew our commitment to each other, to our freedom, and to the alliance that protects it.
Here, in this place where the West held together, let us make a vow to our dead. Let us show them by our actions that we understand what they died for.
-President Ronald Reagan - D-Day 40th Anniversary
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