“June the sixth is the price of freedom”, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said at the American War Cemetery in Normandy, France on Friday morning.
Veterans, dignitaries, and members of the public gathered in Normandy on Friday morning to commemorate the Normandy Landings that began on D-Day, June 6th 1944. The largest amphibious invasion in history, the landings opened a new front in the Allied war against Nazi Germany and opened a path for the invasion of Germany.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth spoke at the American War Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy overlooking Omaha Beach on Friday morning and paid tribute to the Allied nations that fought ashore in the Normandy landings, stating: “the invasion would include brave troops from the U.S., Great Britain, Canada, F