On this day, as you lookout at this cemetery,
what does this anniversary mean?
This means this is look time is relentless and we
all lose that contest to a father time.
We have a few men and women who I see
as being 16/17/18,
maybe 25 years old. They're in wheelchairs now.
They are bedectin ribbons and metals and memorabilia and they
have names of places and battles on their on their
caps.
And they might be in wheelchairs now,
but they're they're represented by everything that is here.
They they were not for their choice to come and
do the right thing 80 years ago.
You and I would not be staying there right now.
As we think of this,
this is one of the one of the last opportunities
where we get to be with this group.
This feels like there's a unique sort of specialness to
this visit.
Now as the world gathers here to honor those days
80 years ago,
the day is going to come with the last veteran
of World War 2 will go.
And perhaps that might be the last veteran of D
days as as as well.
And when it happens, the good news is,
is that their story will have been told.
By them because between tick tock and social media and
grandkids and friends of the family,
they are making sure they're they're sticking a microphone and
a camera in front of Pop pop's face and say,
tell us what you did when you were a kid
Pop up.
And they do. And I think that we have been
a record of the people who who brought peace to
the world and their story must be told and studied.
And it's an example. And it's a part of the
Enlightenment that I think we should all embrace.