6/6/19: President Trump
reads an excellent speech, written by some aide with an actual vocabulary. His
words are meant to honor the heroes who fought and died on the beaches of
Normandy in 1944. It’s a good speech because Trump doesn’t say Allied troops
who were captured by the Germans weren’t heroes, because he likes heroes who
don’t get captured. He doesn’t say there were “good people on both sides,”
which is a plus anytime one side is Nazis.
In one powerful passage, Trump reads about the men who stormed the shores:
More powerful than the strength
of American arms was the strength of American hearts. These men ran through the
fires of hell moved by a force no weapon could destroy: the fierce patriotism
of a free, proud, and sovereign people. ... They pressed on for love in home
and country — the Main Streets, the schoolyards, the churches and neighbors,
the families and communities that gave us men such as these.
Naturally, Trump must mar his message by giving
Laura Ingraham an interview later, seated with a cemetery for fallen Americans
in the background. In that interview he calls Robert Mueller a “fool.” Mueller,
of course, “ran through the fires of hell” (and was wounded) in Vietnam.
Later, the president credits himself with giving the best speech ever given by any American leader on European soil.
Really, he said that.
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The Niland brothers - a family that sacrificed. Their story was the basis for Saving Private Ryan. |
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