FDR D-Day Speech June 6, 1944

President Franklin D. Roosevelt speech on the eve of invasion of Normandy, June 06, 1944. Prevelant today.

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• FDR
• worldwar
• Normandy
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• invasion
• 1944
• WWII

[hallyupiano]

have cristifori's dream as background music :D

[zymurg2007]

@hallyupiano An excellent suggestion. However, I believe I would have to re-create the entire video to add the background music and replace the video entirely. Rather late for that I think. But thanks for the suggestion, I listened to the music and do think it appropriate.

[SSArcher11]

Let's pretend that WWII was, as conservatives have long claimed, the event that really ended the Depression -- as if the federal programs prior to the war had no effect.

What was WWII economically, after all, but a massive program of government spending resulting in maximum employment, growth of the work force, and full utilization of industrial capacity.  Fortunately, we won with our economy barely touched after the war, ensuring our superiority in the world economy for the next 25 years or so.

[zymurg2007]

@SSArcher11 You do not know your history, and do not know depression and WWII economics. Also, you should know that conservatives do not believe in Kansyian theory. If WWII ended the depression, why didn't our economy collapse after the war? It largely had to do with the 1944 Bretton Woods monetary agreement and a less intrusive government. Government spending did not end the depression. Read John Tamny article "World War II Did Not End the Great Depression"

[TheCIAsucks]

@zymurg2007 The New Deal set-up a safety net for Americans who had their livlihoods and savings taken from them through the greed of powerful people and a credit-based banking system. People were starving and had no work. The programs sustained the economy until it could naturally regain momentum. The Republicans wanted to let everyone suffer and the Democrats would not have it.

[zymurg2007]

@TheCIAsucks Then why didn't the new deal end after the US economy regained its great strength? Because the main goal was to expand the Fed and increase the power of the Democrat leaders. Also... "The Republicans wanted to let everyone suffer " is typical liberal rhetoric and BS. Right from the Liberal playbook.

[KTChamberlain]

@worseto First of all I may be Republican but I'm not rich, I don't know where you got that stereotype from but those things get you nowhere in life, so keep trying, dumbass, and second, bite me.

[zymurg2007]

@AquarianWarKitten They wern't Blimps. They were Barrage balloons used to keep low flying aircraft from attacking the troops.

Check Wiki-pedia on Barrage Balloons WWII

[40Kens]

Oh yes. The USA invaded Europe to impose our system of Economics and Banking…We’re the good guys(?)

Would it not be ironic if the true good guys were Germany/Adolf Hitler - Nationalized Banking - and the USA/Roosevelt were the bad guys? What did these D-Day American GI’s go on? LIFE magazine? Hollywood? Donald Duck? Roosevelt with meaning less rhetoric one speech after another? American GI’s were drafted - whether they like it or not. Question history….

[smartamateur]

Happy Veterans' Day 11/11/2011.

We kicked Hitler's ass...thanks to the brave men who stormed the beaches of Normandy.

[patsweeney0]

i'm reading Conrad Black's excellent biography of FDR. As I read the text of this speech, I thought it would be better if I could hear it. Thank you for both the audio and the excellent images. I appreciate your efforts and commend you on a simply superb piece of work

[CylindricalWhistle]

@ETayDawkinsPhoneHome

That does not answer my question. Implying that my education would not be sufficient if I did not understand and agree with your point of view is not an answer.

[ETayDawkinsPhoneHome]

@CylindricalWhistle I'm sure your education surpasses Elementary school level... Figure it out. If you can't, then I am sure experience will more than suffice!

[CylindricalWhistle]

@ETayDawkinsPhoneHome

Yeah. So, what does God have to do with this then? This all seems pretty secular. Whether or not America succeeds or fails, that's dependent on the decisions that the American leaders made, and the situation (political, geographic, etc.) on hand. There doesn't seem to really be the hand of the divine influencing anyone here.

[ETayDawkinsPhoneHome]

@CylindricalWhistle They could win IF.. Big word isn't it?... IF they knew who the real enemy was. Saudi Arabia tried to tell them who the "Head of the terrorist Snake" really was, but Iraq was much, much easier target, and their thing was "we hit Iraq and Afghanistan it will trough enough fear into them they will make their own "regime change."

10 yrs, and Trillions of Dollars later? .... Arab Spring! and the Head of the Terrorist Snake is now in control of 3 more ME Countries. Oh, the IRONY!

[CylindricalWhistle]

@ETayDawkinsPhoneHome

I find the idea that the Christian nation who prays the hardest always wins to be a pretty limiting and inaccurate concept, history-wise. The reason America hasn't 'won' the war in the Middle East is because it's not really a war. It's just extremists living in that area who spontaneously attack the American soldiers stationed there. There's no front line, no ranks, and the terrorists don't wear uniforms. Therefore, there's no way to really 'win' such a war.