Remembering D-Day: June 6th, 1944

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4: 6:00pm- Remembering D-Day, June 6th, 1944: On Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth commemorated the 81st anniversary of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Normandy, France. While speaking from the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Hegseth proclaimed: “Hitler thought his Atlantic wall was impenetrable. He clearly had not met enough Americans.” 6:30pm- On the 40th anniversary of D-Day, President Ronald Reagan delivered one of his most famous speeches at the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, France—the site where U.S. soldiers scaled 100-foot cliffs while being constantly exposed to heavy Nazi gunfire. Their objective: neutralize artillery threatening Allied landings at Omaha and Utah beaches. Surrounded by World War II veterans, Reagan famously stated: “These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs...You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet you risked everything here.”

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr.
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0:16.5	It is D-Day.
0:18.4	It is the anniversary of D-Day, and I'm telling you, if you've not read the book, D-Day by Stephen Ambrose, you better, you should.
0:27.3	And I want to thank my buddy Santo for giving it to me last year, as a matter of fact. I think it was last year. I don't remember. Time just kind of rolls and rolls and rolls.
0:36.2	All I know is that it wasn't a very good day for the Germans.
0:39.9	That's for sure.
0:40.7	It was not a very good day for the Germans.
0:43.0	Welcome to the show, our fourth and final hour on Talk Radio 1210.
0:45.8	WPHD 855, 839, 1210 on X at Rich Zioli.
0:50.6	That might be my favorite line from all of D-Day ever.
0:55.5	It's just the president looking over at the German chancellor and being like,
0:59.6	that was not a good day for you guys. Not a very good day. I'm just saying. Just saying.
1:05.5	Not a good day. Honestly, truly, might be my favorite, favorite, favorite clip.
1:13.4	I know we played yesterday with Opelka, but you want to hear it? All right, why not?
1:15.0	I'm here, Mr. President, to talk with you later on on how we could contribute to that goal.
1:22.5	And we all are looking for measures and for instruments to bring this terrible war to an end.
1:30.3	And may I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is D-Day anniversary
1:38.3	when the Americans once ended a war in Europe. And I think this is in your hand in specific in ours that was not a
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