Imagine listening to this on the radio and knowing that you had loved ones, husbands, fathers, sons and brothers in the invasion force. My father, not yet 16, had two older brothers involved in D-day, one was a radioman on a destroyer off Omaha Beach picking up survivors, the other was a ground crew Sargeant with the 8th Air Force working to repair damaged bombers.
Every year on the anniversary since I was young I’ve always watched something on the anniversary of d day. This year I chose this. I’ve heard it plenty of times before. Same goes with Pearl Harbor and so on.
I have passed this just so many because it highlights how far we have come away from who we are as a nation. We’re at a point now in 2022 where we in any form of government cannot even other the name of God. Jefferson had no intent of creating this divide when he wrote that letter about church and state. We do need to take back our ground God is waiting.
My father and mother, had brothers and men they went to school with, who died bombing the U-boat sub pens, fighting the Battle of the Atlantic, the Bulge, the Battle of the Pacific, and invasions of Northern Africa. My mom, in September 1939, was starting her senior year Jamaica Plain High School, in Boston. She and her girl friends looked around at all the young boys and said, they will be going to war soon. She spoke of the fear we would loose the war, especially during news of the battle of the bulge. It was real and personal for all those that lived then. It remains for us and the generations to come, to rededicate ourselves to that cause of freedom for all men and women, more than ever. History is never inevitable, the future is not sure, it remains for us the living to ensure that the gulfs of the new fascism of oligarchies and the economic royalists is stopped before America and the West are dissolved into an endless nightmare where there is no hope, no history, no future, no individualism, no elections, but only fictional, fake, freedom and democracy, such as that now found in Putin’s Russia.
I have been all over the word. Antigua, Ecuador, Japan, Korea, UK, Canada, etc. My dad served 20 years in the military. My brother and sister served. My grandpa built WWII planes in St Louis. I've held two enlisted jobs and left the military, got my degree, and continued my career with two officer jobs. I've led an entire crew on AWACS, fixed nuclear missiles in Montana. commanded the largest US radar site in Japan, and taught ROTC at Mizzou. I have seen a lot. The one thing I have noticed is no matter how far someone thinks we have fallen, or how loud protest get, or how disgruntled we become, we are leaps and bounds ahead of all other countries in the world. My Brit wife who has been all over Europe agrees. We are truly blessed even at our worst.
I was looking for this prayer during twelve years, wondefull speech. Better than "I have a dream" Trank you. I wanna be...was FDR reading this prayer or improvised?
I am sure that these veterans would be saddened by those contemporary attention-hogging Americans, who live in comfort unheard of in all of human history, who are too smug in their ignorance of history and war and American sacrifices who would demand censorship and obliteration of this great prayer uttered by an exhausted but hopeful President and claim to be "triggered" by mere words and patriarchal and theological motifs. May these fools someday get sense knocked into them or finally take leave of us this Great Nation that took so long to build and struggle for to make it the Haven it is for the World. These Men surely earned the honor of being the "Pride of OUR Nation" God comfort those who were brutally slain in battle from Omaha and Utah to Central Germany over the next grueling and hellish 11 months in towns and battle known and forgotten, whose graves may be lost or did not have enough mortal remains left to be found; their comrades who fought alongside them and watched them perish; those comrades who were maimed in body and in mind. We will never see the likes of them ever again. Let not the Torch be dropped when it needs to be passed.
NEVER FORGET: Donald Trump, as President of the United States of America, said that this was a prayer for suckers and losers. And, the voters who blindly support him agree wholeheartedly.
This broadcast was a mere 80 years after slaves in the American south were freed. Their lot in life had improved exponentially in that time, and would continue to improve all the way into the 1970's before the Democrat Party re-enslaved POC with the systemic and cyclical welfare that would haunt POC for decades thereafter. At least in the 1940's most African American children had fathers in their households, and grew up as functional family units. Today, the government gives out government assistance that is not designed to assist, but to mire an entire community in perpetual poverty.
@@dp8946 I actually sat and listened to Jesse Jackson talk about this subject 40 years ago. Maybe you can laugh out loud at it, but it has been disastrous to the African American community. afro.com/census-bureau-higher-percentage-black-children-live-single-mothers/
@@josephhewes3923 i never asked you anything about that, & i also don’t care about your opinion the fact that you think the living conditions for poc was acceptable at that time tells me who you are and there’s no point in having a conversation because good ol boys like you are just blind to ignorance
@@dp8946 I didn't say "living conditions were acceptable" for poc. I just said that in some ways, the Democrat plantation system of government handouts has damaged African Americans, and that from the 1960's onward, it has damaged African American communities. Oh, and by the way, it's insulting that you think there are people who don't have color. Just to let you know. We are all people of color. But that's another topic. The question is, how has the majority population, treated the minority population. And I will tell you that minorities, in all nations, including AFRICA, are treated poorly. And that in AMERICA, they have been treated better than any other place. So, your blind hatred of "non-people of color" tells me a lot about you and your ability to reason and process information. By the way, why do you not have hatred for your African brothers who sold your ancestors into slavery? And why do you not fight to have slavery ended in AFRICA today? Where it is still practiced and legal? And how is it that here, in a country you hate, America, we found a way to end slavery, but in Africa, they have not? The United States fought a Civil War to end slavery, and for the past 150 years sought to make all men and women more equal. Do we live in a perfect world, where everyone is considered equal? No. Will we ever live in a world where everyone is considered equal? No. So, please, tell me, how you are not better off because you live in America? Where we have attempted to end injustice? As opposed to every other place, that is worse than right here?
This deserves billions of views. Speeches and prayers like this are important for history for all generations.
With the possible exception of Reagan, I can’t imagine any President in my lifetime giving a stirring faith-based speech like this one.
On the 80th anniversary, this speech is so valuable. The forces of fascism remain on the march, but freedom and democracy will succeed once more.
Such eloquence and faith. Why I love this man!
Listened to this today. "Some will never return..." - So grateful for their sacrafice.
Imagine listening to this on the radio and knowing that you had loved ones, husbands, fathers, sons and brothers in the invasion force. My father, not yet 16, had two older brothers involved in D-day, one was a radioman on a destroyer off Omaha Beach picking up survivors, the other was a ground crew Sargeant with the 8th Air Force working to repair damaged bombers.
Every year on the anniversary since I was young I’ve always watched something on the anniversary of d day. This year I chose this. I’ve heard it plenty of times before. Same goes with Pearl Harbor and so on.
How sad this has so few views.
A crippled man, taught a crippled nation how to walk again, and set free generations to come.
Today is the anniversary of D-Day June 6, 2023 and I played this on my Philco 41-80 in homage
I have passed this just so many because it highlights how far we have come away from who we are as a nation. We’re at a point now in 2022 where we in any form of government cannot even other the name of God.
Jefferson had no intent of creating this divide when he wrote that letter about church and state. We do need to take back our ground God is waiting.
This gave me goose bumps
God bless them all 🙏☮️🌎
I'm related to him I'm so proud of him 😊❤️.
God bless fdr 🇺🇸🙏
Imagine praying today- Shows How much we have turned away from God
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🙏🇺🇸❤️
My father and mother, had brothers and men they went to school with, who died bombing the U-boat sub pens, fighting the Battle of the Atlantic, the Bulge, the Battle of the Pacific, and invasions of Northern Africa. My mom, in September 1939, was starting her senior year Jamaica Plain High School, in Boston. She and her girl friends looked around at all the young boys and said, they will be going to war soon. She spoke of the fear we would loose the war, especially during news of the battle of the bulge. It was real and personal for all those that lived then.
It remains for us and the generations to come, to rededicate ourselves to that cause of freedom for all men and women, more than ever. History is never inevitable, the future is not sure, it remains for us the living to ensure that the gulfs of the new fascism of oligarchies and the economic royalists is stopped before America and the West are dissolved into an endless nightmare where there is no hope, no history, no future, no individualism, no elections, but only fictional, fake, freedom and democracy, such as that now found in Putin’s Russia.
How far have we fallen as a nation? 😢🙁
Very true and very sad
I have been all over the word. Antigua, Ecuador, Japan, Korea, UK, Canada, etc. My dad served 20 years in the military. My brother and sister served. My grandpa built WWII planes in St Louis. I've held two enlisted jobs and left the military, got my degree, and continued my career with two officer jobs. I've led an entire crew on AWACS, fixed nuclear missiles in Montana. commanded the largest US radar site in Japan, and taught ROTC at Mizzou. I have seen a lot. The one thing I have noticed is no matter how far someone thinks we have fallen, or how loud protest get, or how disgruntled we become, we are leaps and bounds ahead of all other countries in the world. My Brit wife who has been all over Europe agrees. We are truly blessed even at our worst.
I was looking for this prayer during twelve years, wondefull speech. Better than "I have a dream" Trank you. I wanna be...was FDR reading this prayer or improvised?
Amen ✝️🙏😇
I am sure that these veterans would be saddened by those contemporary attention-hogging Americans, who live in comfort unheard of in all of human history, who are too smug in their ignorance of history and war and American sacrifices who would demand censorship and obliteration of this great prayer uttered by an exhausted but hopeful President and claim to be "triggered" by mere words and patriarchal and theological motifs. May these fools someday get sense knocked into them or finally take leave of us this Great Nation that took so long to build and struggle for to make it the Haven it is for the World. These Men surely earned the honor of being the "Pride of OUR Nation" God comfort those who were brutally slain in battle from Omaha and Utah to Central Germany over the next grueling and hellish 11 months in towns and battle known and forgotten, whose graves may be lost or did not have enough mortal remains left to be found; their comrades who fought alongside them and watched them perish; those comrades who were maimed in body and in mind. We will never see the likes of them ever again. Let not the Torch be dropped when it needs to be passed.
We need more praying from the White House!
The whole world was at war. It was an hour of need and concern!
How many u s citizens if you asked who was FDR? would they know the answer?
NEVER FORGET: Donald Trump, as President of the United States of America, said that this was a prayer for suckers and losers. And, the voters who blindly support him agree wholeheartedly.
“set free a suffering humanity” but what about POC back home who were 2nd class citizens and treated like garbage
This broadcast was a mere 80 years after slaves in the American south were freed. Their lot in life had improved exponentially in that time, and would continue to improve all the way into the 1970's before the Democrat Party re-enslaved POC with the systemic and cyclical welfare that would haunt POC for decades thereafter.
At least in the 1940's most African American children had fathers in their households, and grew up as functional family units. Today, the government gives out government assistance that is not designed to assist, but to mire an entire community in perpetual poverty.
@@josephhewes3923 lol
@@dp8946 I actually sat and listened to Jesse Jackson talk about this subject 40 years ago. Maybe you can laugh out loud at it, but it has been disastrous to the African American community.
afro.com/census-bureau-higher-percentage-black-children-live-single-mothers/
@@josephhewes3923 i never asked you anything about that, & i also don’t care about your opinion the fact that you think the living conditions for poc was acceptable at that time tells me who you are and there’s no point in having a conversation because good ol boys like you are just blind to ignorance
@@dp8946 I didn't say "living conditions were acceptable" for poc. I just said that in some ways, the Democrat plantation system of government handouts has damaged African Americans, and that from the 1960's onward, it has damaged African American communities. Oh, and by the way, it's insulting that you think there are people who don't have color. Just to let you know. We are all people of color. But that's another topic.
The question is, how has the majority population, treated the minority population. And I will tell you that minorities, in all nations, including AFRICA, are treated poorly. And that in AMERICA, they have been treated better than any other place. So, your blind hatred of "non-people of color" tells me a lot about you and your ability to reason and process information.
By the way, why do you not have hatred for your African brothers who sold your ancestors into slavery? And why do you not fight to have slavery ended in AFRICA today? Where it is still practiced and legal? And how is it that here, in a country you hate, America, we found a way to end slavery, but in Africa, they have not?
The United States fought a Civil War to end slavery, and for the past 150 years sought to make all men and women more equal. Do we live in a perfect world, where everyone is considered equal? No. Will we ever live in a world where everyone is considered equal? No.
So, please, tell me, how you are not better off because you live in America? Where we have attempted to end injustice? As opposed to every other place, that is worse than right here?