Today is the 65th anniversary of D-Day. President Reagan's 40th anniversary speech will be remembered as the best speech given commemorating this day.
We're bound today by what bound us 40 years ago, the same loyalties, traditions, and beliefs. We're bound by reality. The strength of America's allies is vital to the United States, and the American security guarantee is essential to the continued freedom of Europe's democracies. We were with you then; we're with you now. Your hopes are our hopes, and your destiny is our destiny.After watching this speech again it's easy to see why Reagan is a conservative icon. He gives moral force, grace and dignity, to so much conservatives hold dear.
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. Let our actions say to them the words for which Matthew Ridgway listened: "I will not fail thee nor forsake thee."
Strengthened by their courage and heartened by their value [valor] and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.
2 comments:
This was a great speech. Reagan was an first rate speaker. Obama is good but he's no Ronald Reagan. The republicans need to find another Reagan type with similar charm, wit and communication skills. But like the democrates in the 90s, who fought to shed far left political influences, the republicans will struggle to shed the far right. Finding this new winning philosophy is key. The republicans can hold on to their conservative values and they can win with them, but they will need to modify, reform, and revise them based on the political realities they face. If they can't, then they are doomed to remain out of power.
Oxfordshireman - Well said. I agree.
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