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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Seth Leibsohn: The Boys of Point du Hoc
Description: Eighty years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt delivered the largest mass prayer in history up to that point. A radio broadcast for our boys in Europe, about to embark on what General Dwight Eisenhower described as “the greatest amphibious assault ever attempted.” D-Day. In that prayer, FDR described our fight as a “crusade” and asked his fellow Americans to pray to God for His will to “prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy.” Those prayers were answered with those boys—those boys of Point du Hoc, and other beaches. As put in the American Patriot...