I'm John Batser with my colleague Victor Davis Hanson, the Hoover Institution, who's just returned from Normandy,

taking people through the rolling sand dunes, this vast landscape.

50 miles is my memory, maybe it was 50 kilometers across.

Very famous moments.

The tides, the ocean, the North Sea, the storms are all the same but Victor I watched

this 80th anniversary from this side of the world and it was both discouraging and educating and so many young people do not know what

we're talking about when we talk about June 6th. What is your experience of the people

you were with? Are they all educated on what Normandy represented?

There's without Normandy do we get here? Do they understand that?

Yeah, I think I took 160 people for two weeks from all the way from Utah Beach, the furthest south, southern beach all the way up to Sword Beach and I would say the average age on the

tour was about 65. Everybody knew a great deal about it. We had some very detailed historical lectures every morning about the operation, the Normandy campaign, the principal generals and leaders involved. They all knew them in advance.

And the people in Normandy, the French population, especially the elderly, who were children during this or whose parents they remember stories from them. They were very pro-American. They have created

almost an obviously a tourist industry because it was the 80th anniversary of

the landings when I was there three weeks ago, but also they just have a very strong American,

pro-American, pro-British view that they were saved, and otherwise they they would not France wouldn't exist today

had we not have a successful invasion. What about their children and grandchildren

back here in the US? Do they know Victor? I don't think anybody no I don't think any and I get very frustrated

that they don't know but as someone who has children and grandchildren in

their defense people in the university don't teach these things.

They teach diversity, equity, inclusion, they teach gender, they teach radical environmental

things, but they just don't teach history in general and particularly history that does not reflect some type of grievance or binary between oppressed and oppressors or victims and victimizers.

So when they look at Normandy, it's just an exemplar,

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