and the w reports of william blue cross joins me now in the studio some more on what's happening in normandy. welcome, lillian, and what stood out for you in particular. and what we heard from president biden today because he was quite pointed in certain remarks, wasn't right, he's continuing a theme is administration, which is a very simplified view of the worlds that puts democracies versus i'll talk proceeds or democracies versus authoritarian systems. and world war 2 is the perfect parallel to be able to make that very simplified case. indeed, a, in particular, because the day was this very salient, singular point in time, that really was, you know, 150000, mostly men storming beaches into one of the most deadliest and dangerous combat situations ever seem to liberate you're up. and many of them pay the ultimate price for that. of course, history has a way of smoothing out the complications and smoothing out some of the less, the less nicer bits of history, right? democracies aren't just good and i'll talk these aren't just bad. even at that time, world war 2, the democracies were talkin