A Visit to the Shores of Normandy - Part 2

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🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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80 years ago today, many of the brave Allied soldiers who fought to liberate France from the axis of evil were tragically killed by German machine gunfire on the beaches of Normandy. On today’s edition of Family Talk, Dr. James Dobson continues to share personal memories from his visit to the Normandy American Cemetery in France, where 4,400 of those soldiers are buried. Listen to the inspiring story of an American soldier named Billy Harris, and hear from President Ronald Reagan in 1984, as he commemorated the 40th anniversary of D-Day.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to Family Talk. It's a ministry of the James Dobson Family Institute
0:05.1	supported by listeners just like you. I'm Dr. James Dobson and I'm thrilled that
0:10.6	you've joined us. Hello and welcome to a special edition of Family Talk, the broadcast division of the Dr James Dobson Family
0:25.4	Institute.
0:26.4	I'm Roger Marsh, and today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
0:31.8	On this pivotal day back in 1944, Allied troops stormed the French beaches at Normandy
0:37.6	and changed the tide of World War II. Yesterday here on the broadcast, we heard stories from Dr Dobson and his wife Shirley's trip to Normandy and the memorial to the fallen soldiers there.
0:49.0	By the way if you missed any part of that touching broadcast I urge you to go to Dr James Dobson.org
0:55.0	forward slash family talk to listen to those timeless historic counts of the war.
1:00.0	Now today on the broadcast we'll hear more from the people who were there
1:04.4	and the people who remember this pivotal time. Dr Dobson is joined by
1:08.7	former audio engineer Steve writer and our tour guide Dwight Anderson. Let's join them right now, right here, on Family Talk.
1:17.0	Steve, we mentioned last time that we had an absolutely wonderful tour guide who walked us through the cemetery at Omaha Beach,
1:28.0	and he told so many stories, and one of them is about a woman named Peggy Harris and we have his
1:37.6	depiction of her experience. Shall we let our listeners hear it? Doctor, it was by far my favorite story that he had told.
1:47.0	So you can see the headstone here, you can see the guy's name is Billy D. Harris.
1:50.0	You can see he was a first lieutenant.
1:52.0	You can see he was a fighter pilot, he flew P51s.
1:55.8	And you can see on this headstone that he enlisted in Oklahoma and he was killed on the 17th of July,
2:02.3	44. But what makes his headstone special for me is the fact that Billy
2:06.5	here gets more flowers than anybody in the cemetery. You see what we can't see from looking at the
2:12.2	headstone is that Billy was 22 years old and that on the 22nd of September in fact that he just got flowers here recently on the 22nd of September
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