Whether a flag on the moon or the Stars and Stripes at Iwo Jima, boldness in service of our values has been America’s calling card since the Revolutionary War.
So, it’s fitting that, on June 6, we commemorate the American and Allied heroism of 80 years ago Thursday, as our troops set out to roll back the tide of fascism in Normandy, France, in 1944.
Those brave troops sailed toward the Normandy beaches, into a hail of gunfire, in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address so that Europe, too, should “have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
In this era of intense political polarization, Americans must now unite around the timeless principles of democracy, faith, and freedom, for which our brave troops laid down their lives.
When the Nazis began their…
