80 years ago today a pivotal moment in World War II. The landing at D-Day, the sacrifice of a lot of lives, Americans, British, French, a generation that is for me, our grandparents, for some of you, your great-grandparents,

for some of you your parents, and we will be paying tribute to that day and more importantly those men throughout the course of the show and especially on the evening show today as we always do. And typically we play President Eisenhower's

speech which we will do this evening and we will play some reminiscent statements by men who were there who are no longer with us as they

recalled that experience in the 90s or 2000s or up until the last few years when we lost them.

But I thought what we'd do this year is a bit more proscriptive and that is to play something that we played five years ago

jocco Wielink who was a Navy SEAL he's now motivational motivational speaker. He's an executive coach, a consultant, but he puts this into

very good historical context because there is, instead of studying ancient history, that was great, those

men are great.

What I like about this is that he demands that we honor those men by embodying their

spirit because if all we do is build a memorial that we look at and don't learn from and don't pattern our lives around, then it's not a great tribute. Here is what Jocco said.

It's been said that the most important thing every man should know is what he is

willing to die for.

On the distant shores of a quiet beach in the north of France,

there is a field dotted with thousands of white headstones solemnly overlooking the English Channel.

Those headstones mark the final resting place of courageous servicemen, some English, some Canadian, and of course, American.

To this day, the locals refer to them all as the liberators.

75 years ago, these brave souls storm toward heavily fortified enemy positions

manned by battle-hardened Nazi soldiers.

These servicemen fought to liberate the world from darkness.

They fought for the ultimate human ideal.

The ideal that America is built upon freedom.

And for that ideal, they lay down their lives on that altar,

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