Mike Pence: “it is June 6, 2002, and 58 years ago on this day, as President Reagan said nearly 20 years ago, we mark a day in history…”

“it is June 6, 2002, and 58 years ago on this day, as President Reagan said nearly 20 years ago, we mark a day in history when allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim a continent to liberty. As President Reagan said, for 4 long years much of Europe had been caught up under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried for liberation, and America and her allies responded. 225 Rangers came ashore at Pointe de Hoc, Normandy, along with thousands of others. As President Reagan would say, that day in 1984, the men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or the next. It was the deep knowledge, and I pray God we have not lost it, of the profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. Let us, on this 58th anniversary, never forget the courage, the inspiration, and the faith of the boys and the men of Pointe du Hoc, Normandy.”