President Obama with, from left, Britain’s Prince Charles and Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy at the American U.S. Cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer. The veterans remind us that “human destiny is not determined by forces beyond our control,” Obama said. Francois Mori / Associated PressD-Day Tributes and Reflection Conclude Obama's Tour -- Time Magazine
Barack Obama began his latest overseas trip on a mission to increase international cooperation, with a visit to Islam's holiest land, Saudi Arabia, and its most dynamic intellectual hub, Cairo. He ended it four days later at a monument to what such common purpose can achieve.
Sixty-five years ago today, 135,000 allied troops launched the largest seaborne invasion in history on the beaches of northern France, a move that would eventually decide the outcome of World War II. On Saturday, Obama stood with the leaders of Great Britain, France and Canada on the beach where nearly 4,000 of those men died in a single day, to praise what he called the "clarity of purpose with which the war was waged."
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