英语演讲：Thiswasanemotionalday

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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,

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

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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