“If Prayer Were Made Of Sound” … President Barack Obama On D-Day 70

Video by Erin O’Donnell

“If prayer were made of sound, the skies over England that night would have deafened the world.

Captains paced their decks. Pilots tapped their gauges. Commanders pored over maps, fully aware that for all the months of meticulous planning, everything could go wrong: the winds, the tides, the element of surprise — and above all, the audacious bet that what waited on the other side of the Channel would compel men not to shrink away, but to charge ahead.”

Read the rest of President Barack Obama’s remarks at the Normandy American Cemetery on June 6, 2014, the 70th Anniversary of D-Day on CNN.