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#Londinium90AD: D-Day and the American Civil Religion Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society.

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#Londinium90AD: D-Day and the American Civil Religion Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society.

https://www.agonmag.com/p/the-demon-in-americas-sacred-narrative

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0:00.0

Dad, I'm hungry!

0:01.5

Right, what do I cook for tea?

0:03.0

Errr, McCain chips. These will be good.

0:05.2

You know they'll come out nice and crispy if you cook them in a rye fryer?

0:08.1

Just say, Alexa, open McCain, and Alexa will help you.

0:12.0

What? You mean if I say Alexa, open McCain, Alexa will open the bag of chips for me?

0:16.4

Not literally open the bag of chips for your dad, but Alexa can tell you how to cook them

0:20.5

and give you ideas for tea.

0:21.9

Ah, okay. Alexa, open McCain.

0:24.4

Well done, dad. Such a tech wizard.

0:26.5

Chip, chip, hooray.

0:27.6

Crispy air fryer perfection with McCain.

0:30.4

This is the Friendsvistory Debating Society. I am Gaius, John Bachelor, Germanicus Markovläus,

0:36.7

joins. It is June 6, 1944, 79 years before the moment in the 21st century that all of Europe

0:46.8

is waiting for another large operation, the counteroffensive in Ukraine, but we now go to the counteroffensive

0:54.8

in the Western Front, the launch on the beaches of what we know to be Normandy.

1:00.4

That was a not well-known fact at the moment that the invasion was launched.

1:08.1

The night of June 6, the President of the United States, came on the radio to address the

1:13.8

whole nation in what he called the prayer on D-Day.

1:17.7

Said Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

1:21.2

My fellow Americans, last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome,

1:26.8

I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the channel

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