英语演讲：Thiswasanemotionalday
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英语演讲：Thiswasanemotionalday
Ronald Reagan: Remarks at the U.S. Ranger Monument on
the 40th Anniversary of D-Day
*This was an emotional day.
The ceremonies honoring the fortieth anniversary of D
day became more than commemorations. They became
celebrations of heroism and sacrifice.
This place, Pointe du Hoc, in itself was moving and
majestic. I stood there on that windswept point with the
ocean behind me. Before me were the boys who forty
years before had fought their way up from the ocean. Some
rested under the white crosses and Stars of David that
stretched out across the landscape. Others sat right in
front of me. They looked like elderly businessmen, yet
these were the kids who climbed the cliffs.*
We're here to mark that day in history when the
Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent
to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been
under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews
cried out in the camps, millions cried out for
liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for
its rescue. Here, in Normandy, the rescue began. Here,
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the Allies stood and fought against tyranny, in a giant
undertaking unparalleled in human history.
We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern
shore of France. The air is soft, but forty years ago at
this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries
of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle
fire and the roar of cannon. At dawn, on the morning of
the 6th of June, 1944, two hundred and twenty-five
Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to
the bottom of these cliffs.
Their mission was one of the most difficult and
daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate
cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The Allies had been
told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here,
and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the
Allied advance.
The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers at
the edge of the cliffs, shooting down at them with
machine guns and throwing grenades. And the American
Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the
face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up.
When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When
one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin
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his climb again. They climbed, shot back, and held their
footing. Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves
over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of
these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of
Europe. Two hundred and twenty-five came here. After two
days of fighting, only ninety could still bear arms.
And behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the
Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these
cliffs. And before me are the men who put them here.
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men
who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped
free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a
war. Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of
Stephen Spender's poem. You are men who in your "lives
fought for life and left the vivid air signed with your
honor."
I think I know what you may be thinking right now --
thinking "we were just part of a bigger effort; everyone
was brave that day." Well everyone was. Do you remember
the story of Bill Millin of the 51st Highlanders? Forty
years ago today, British troops were pinned down near a
bridge, waiting desperately for help. Suddenly, they
heard the sound of bagpipes, and some thought they were
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英语演讲：ThiswasanemotionaldayRonaldReagan:RemarksattheU.S.RangerMonumentonthe40thAnniversaryofD-Day*Thiswasanemotionalday.TheceremonieshonoringthefortiethanniversaryofDdaybecamemorethancommemorations.Theybecamecelebrationsofheroismandsacrifice.Thisplace,PointeduHoc,initselfwasmovingandmajestic.Istoodth...
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