This nation matters more than their life when they decide that their country matters more than they do.

That's what the Rangers at Porto Hawk did. That's what they decided. That's what every soldier,

and every marine who stormed this beach is decided. A feared dictator had

conquered a continent, had finally met his match, because of them the

war turned.

They stood against Hitler's aggression? Does anyone doubt, does anyone doubt that they

would want America to stand up against Putin's aggression here in Europe today?

They storm the beaches alongside their allies. Does

anyone believe these Rangers want America to go alone today? They fought to vanquish a hateful ideology in the 30s and 40s.

Does anyone doubt they wouldn't move heaven and earth to vanquish hateful ideologies of today.

These Rangers put mission in country above themselves.

Does anyone believe they would exact any less

from every American today. These ranges remembered with

reverence those who gave their lives in battle. Could they or anyone ever imagine that America would do the same, wouldn't do the same?

One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

American democracy asks the horrors of things, to believe that we're a part of something bigger than ourselves.

So democracy begins with each of us.

It begins when one person decides

of something more important in themselves.

I count that as the... something more like than themselves.

I count that as the second time since I've been paying attention that President Biden has sounded a lot more like Ronald Reagan that first was, I think,

quotes him in the State of the Union

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