{"id":15082,"date":"2016-06-06T20:17:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T20:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15082"},"modified":"2016-06-06T20:17:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T20:17:28","slug":"they-fought-to-save-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15082","title":{"rendered":"They fought to save the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>On June 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan went to the Normandy coast of France to honor the 40th anniversary of the invasion that took place there.<\/p>\n<p>He paid tribute to &#8220;the boys of Pointe du Hoc,&#8221; the U.S. Army Rangers who scaled the cliffs overlooking Omaha Beach on that horrifying day.<\/p>\n<p>They had sailed across the English Channel to free Europe from tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-two years after that memorial commemoration, President Reagan&#8217;s speech is worth watching yet again.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Normandy Speech: Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day  6\/6\/84\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eEIqdcHbc8I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t try to glorify it here.<\/p>\n<p>These men saved the world. God bless them all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan went to the Normandy coast of France to honor the 40th anniversary of the invasion that took place there. He paid tribute to &#8220;the boys of Pointe du Hoc,&#8221; the U.S. Army Rangers who scaled the cliffs overlooking Omaha Beach on that horrifying day. They had sailed across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">They fought to save the world<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[3330,6295,4017,6294,5302],"class_list":["post-15082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","category-national-news","tag-normandy","tag-pointe-du-hoc","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-u-s-army-rangers","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15083,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions\/15083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}