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Opinion | Reagan at Pointe du Hoc, 40 Years Later
Friends of Ronald Reagan gathered to mark the 40th anniversary of his speeches ... To the D-Day speech at Pointe du Hoc. There’s something I always want to say about it. The speech was a plain ...
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Reagan at Normandy — Americans Need to Recover the Art of the Noble Speech
In 1984, on the 40th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, Ronald Reagan spoke at Pointe du Hoc, to commemorate the greatest war operation America has undertaken, and to explain its importance ...
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D-Day changed Omaha Beach’s sand in astonishing way, researchers found
the bomb craters left behind at Pointe du Hoc; the concrete bunkers where the German military fired on Allied troops; and the Normandy American Cemetery, where thousands of U.S. soldiers who died ...
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Opinion: The Greatest Generation Was Forged At ‘Pointe du Hoc’ Normandy
The assault on Pointe du Hoc was a key battle of the D-Day invasion. Image: National Archives President Reagan addresses the surviving U.S. Army veterans of the assault against Pointe du Hoc on ...