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President Barack Obama speaks at a ceremony commemorating the 65th anniversary of D-Day at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, June 6, 2009.
That is the story of Normandy - but also the story of America; of the Minutemen who gathered on a green in Lexington; of the Union boys from Maine who repelled a charge at Gettysburg; of the men who gave their last full measure of devotion at Inchon and Khe San; of all the young men and women whose valor and goodness still carry forward this legacy of service and sacrifice.
At an hour of maximum danger
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.