Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday June 6, 2019.

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senior editor eight brainwalled hi Abe. John and in Washington senior writer

Christine Rosen-Hykerstein. Hi John. No our Rothman is out today so it is just us

three and we thank Ricochet's E.J. Hill for producing over Skype. So guys we

should maybe start out by commemorating as everybody is the 75th anniversary of

the most daring and largest scale naval invasion in world history of D.D.A.

and you know extraordinary sacrifices that were made by American and British

forces in landing on the continent and ensuring that the defeat of Nazi

Germany would come you know in about a year's time after that. I can't really

think of anything to say about this that is any more profound than that except

this astounding footage of these you know 90-year-old veterans who are you

know parachuting there's a NBC has footage of a 97-year-old veteran who

literally parachute it out of a plane to simulate what he did in the days

after D.D.A. which itself is just you know beyond almost beyond belief but you

know testifies to that undying spirit of gumption and whatever else you might

call it anybody have anything to add. I have one thing having you know watched a

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