To surrender to bullies, to bow down to dictators is simply unthinkable.

Were we to do that, it means we be forgetting what happened here in these hollow beaches.

Make no mistake, we will not bow down. We will not forget. Let me end with this.

History tells us freedom is not free. If you want to know the price of freedom, come here

to Normandy. Come to Normandy and look. We have been here before, appeasement, denialism, a fifth column at home

that for whatever reason denigrates our freedoms, denigrates Americanism, and worships foreign fascists,

whether they be Adolf Hitler in the 1930s or Vladimir Putin or Viktor Orban in the 2020s. We are not fated

to live in freedom permanently. We cannot give up what these men paid their lives for.

Americans cannot lay down their freedoms to a demagogue and a corrupted party of fascists

who want power at all costs.

Is it possible that the American people will decide to replace this man, the president of

the United States of America, with this man, an orange-tinged fascist, a convicted felon, a man

found liable for rape, and then for defaming the woman he raped.

A serial liar. A man who ripped off every small contractor, whoever had the misfortune to work for him.

A conspiracy theorist. And somebody utterly incoherent on even his best days.

152 days remain until the American people will make the decision.

This is the warning.

June 6th, 2024.

80 years have passed since the commencement of what is remembered by history as the day of days.

These four beats on a kettle drum, three dots and a dash were Morse code.

It stood for victory.

It was the preface of every BBC broadcast. And 80 years ago, on June the 5th, the BBC broadcast, a message for our French friends.

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