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🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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0:00.0 | Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied landing at Normandy in 1944. |
0:06.0 | There are not many World War II vets still with us. |
0:09.0 | 16.4 million Americans served during the war. |
0:12.0 | My grandfather, probably many of your fathers and |
0:14.2 | grandfathers among them, as of last year only 119,550 or 0.7% were still around. |
0:22.4 | And on the anniversary of perhaps their greatest triumph in that war, |
0:26.0 | some of the remaining vets are feeling decidedly un-triumpfant. |
0:31.4 | When you're here with all of these brothers and people who experience the war as you did and also the subsequent |
0:39.0 | wars in Korea and Vietnam, what do you think about the state of our country today? How do you feel |
0:44.6 | about the country that you worked so hard to stay free, to keep free? The real |
0:50.6 | truth? Yeah. I feel like a foreigner in my own country lots of times and I don't like it makes my heart real heavy and I just hope we can pull out of this there's too much |
1:03.6 | Hollywood going on in Washington all the time. |
1:08.0 | The important subjects they don't cover. |
1:10.7 | So the thing is I hope that I hope all the guys will rally up and we'll go back and |
1:16.1 | straighten it all out. So that's the kind of tough attitude that's very typical |
1:21.1 | of that generation but the feeling he's |
1:23.2 | describing is devastating. I feel like a foreigner in my own country and it is |
1:30.0 | brutal because that feeling is not just the typical kind of feeling that comes |
1:35.0 | to everyone with age. This is the consequence of a deliberate campaign to make |
1:39.6 | Americans strangers in their own country. This is an intentional campaign to replace our |
1:45.5 | country's traditions, laws, customs, language, social order, even people with |
1:51.0 | something else. We all sense that America has not simply progressed or developed, |
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