On June 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan made a speech commemorating the 40th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France. An excerpt of the speech reads, “At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. They climbed, shot back, and held their footing… Soon,