Remembering D-Day: Interview with US World War II Veteran on the Landing in Normandy, June 6, 1944

June 6 marks the anniversary of D-Day. Mr. Sergio Moirano, a United States veteran of World War II living in Belgium, talks about his experience before and during the allied landing on the beaches of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944 in this interview taped by the U.S. Embassy to Belgium in 2010 (http://belgium.usembassy.gov).

The following are excerpts from President Obama's speech at the D-Day 65th Anniversary Ceremony:
[...] It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only six miles long and two miles wide. More particularly, it came down to the men who landed here -- those who now rest in this place for eternity, and those who are with us here today. Perhaps more than any other reason, you, the veterans of that landing, are why we still remember what happened on D-Day. You're why we keep coming back.
For you remind us that in the end, human destiny is not determined by forces beyond our control. You remind us that our future is not shaped by mere chance or circumstance. Our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. It has always been up to us.
[...] Friends and veterans, we cannot forget. What we must not forget is that D-Day was a time and a place where the bravery and the selflessness of a few was able to change the course of an entire century. At an hour of maximum danger, amid the bleakest of circumstances, men who thought themselves ordinary found within themselves the ability to do something extraordinary. They fought for their moms and sweethearts back home, for the fellow warriors they came to know as brothers. And they fought out of a simple sense of duty -- a duty sustained by the same ideals for which their countrymen had once fought and bled for over two centuries.
More: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-D-Day-65th-Anniversary-Ceremony/

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