D DAY DATE QUOTES

“This landing is but the opening phase of the campaign in Western Europe. Great battles lie ahead.” – General Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon a great crusade.” – General Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We will accept nothing less than full victory.” – General Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We will attack and we will capture it…not just deprive it of its existence.” – General Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The eyes of the world are upon you.” – General Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” – David Hackworth

“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender or submission.” – John F. Kennedy

“Courage is contagious.” – First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of Earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.” – Ronald Reagan

“In the end, it all comes down to the men on the ground.” – General Norman Schwarzkopf

“They gave everything. And then they gave some more.” – Unknown INSPIRING QUOTES ABOUT RECOVERY

“The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values.” – Andrew Bernstein

“The Americans, who first visited the landing places, found scores of bodies depicting the tragedy of D-Day, and all along the coast boats had been tossed crumpled and broken, giving more evidence of the terrible battle that took place.” – Junius Peake

“We landed under heavy machinegun fire; after landing I ran across the beach into a small concrete blockhouse. I had seen that one man went left and another went right. I went in the center. That’s where you received the most fire.” – Clayton Rudolph

“There are no stronger soldiers in the world than American soldiers.” – Unknown

“We are told, ‘The pen is mightier than the sword.’ But I know which of these weapons I would choose.” – General Eisenhower

“This invasion is more than just a matter of seizing territory. It’s about destroying an evil force that threatens us all.” – Captain John H. Miller (fictional character from the movie “Saving Private Ryan”)

“We knew we had to fight the Axis or the kind of warfare that would make Hitler’s concentration camps look like Sunday school picnics.” – Buck Compton

“The story of the Normandy invasion has been brilliantly told many times, but never before with the visceral, harrowing immediacy of ‘The Longest Day’.” – Jeff Shaara

“In extraordinary circumstances, you have to take extraordinary measures.” – Captain Frank John “Tug” Hartman

“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall