Ted Poe: “the silent ocean roar now covers the battlefields on the shores of France. They fought for a people they did not know in…”

“the silent ocean roar now covers the battlefields on the shores of France. They fought for a people they did not know in a place they had never been and consecrated the soil of freedom by the self-sacrifice of their own blood. There are 9,386 Americans buried on the cliffs of Normandy, France. 1,557 are still missing 62 years later. They gave their youth so Europe could have a tomorrow. They came not to conquer, but to set a people free. That D-Day invasion of France was the beginning of the liberation of Europe. Those that served that day jumped from the sky in the darkness, or went ashore in the face of massive gunfire. They were the young Americans that went to land in Normandy on June 6, 1944. They defeated the evil forces of the Axis and they did not come back until it was over over there. History refers to those that died and those that lived as the Greatest Generation. They are our fathers and our grandfathers. They defended the honor of liberty and proved there is something worth fighting for, and there is something worth dying for. And that's just the way it is. ____________________”