Amanpour: Jake Larson, Carlisle Salapare, Antony Beevor, Mark Esper and Christine Ockrent

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jake Larson, a 96 year-old WWII D-Day veteran, and Carlisle Salapare, a 17 year-old high school student, join Christiane Amanpour in Normandy, France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Antony Beevor, military historian, discusses the events of that momentous day. Mark Esper, U.S. Secretary of the Army, talks about instilling the patriotism of WWII veterans in the soldiers of today, as well as the U.S. Army's policy on Transgender service people. Christine Ockrent, journalist and commentator, unpacks the politics behind the pageantry of the day.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amman Paul from Normandy in France.
0:08.0	Here's what's coming up.
0:12.0	75 years since D-Day, a real life history lesson in a moving conversation between the generations,
0:20.0	a 96-year-old veteran and a 17- 17 year old high school student.
0:25.0	Plus the real story of what happened here in 1944
0:30.0	historian and author Anthony Beaver walks us through that fateful day.
0:35.0	Then, many thousands of men have died for ideals such as these.
0:42.0	The US military past and present I speak to the
0:45.8	Army Secretary Mark Esper about the sacrifices made here and how the military
0:51.0	will face the challenges of the future.
0:53.7	And the politics behind this somber remembrance
0:57.3	with the top French journalist Christina Krent. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiana Wampir here at the American
1:17.7	Cemetery in Normandy where the Sun is setting now on a day of deep
1:21.8	emotion and tribute to the veterans who 75 years
1:25.7	ago today stormed the beaches below me to liberate Western Europe from the Nazis.
1:30.5	It's a moment known forever more by its military term D-Day. the the world returned to Normandy to honor them and the many more who were killed in
1:45.2	World War II.
1:47.0	Side by side the US President Donald Trump and the French President Emmanuel Macron
1:58.1	paid tribute to the fallen and to everyone else who fought here on June 6 all those years ago.
2:06.2	You are among the very greatest Americans who will ever live. You are the pride of our nation. You are the glory of our republic and
2:19.2	we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We know what we owe to you veterans,
2:26.0	our freedom, on behalf of my nation,
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