their secondary objective which was to set up a roadblock which was to cut the road that connected omaha beach and utah beach. it ran across the top of pointe du hoc. they setup an l shaped line and for the next two days the germans counterattacked berlin, and higher platoon was taken out by the germans they captured. they broke through part of the line. only "dog company" held in a small hedge road a, severed the road, when the germans couldn't reenforce from one beach to the other, this was a very close thing. one of the men that was attached to the second ranger battalion was colonel trevor, the no. one commander who fought for north africa, one of the most poignant savings he had was i have never come so close to being either killed or captured. he was convinced that that was going to happen because the germans were relentlessly counterattacking. from pointe du hoc the men of "dog company" held. they then fought for the rest of europe and as they fought through europe, the next place was a place called brest . there was a coastal fort, a major fortification. they needed to resupply their f

i stood on a deserted, quiet and peaceful omaha beach with the haunting memory that on june 6, 1944, the sand under my feet was red with the blood of americans from my father's generation, who if they survived the constant machine gunfire from nazi gunner, and huddled the seawall and climbed those hills to liberate france and eventually save the world. as we participated in the flag lower ceremony, at the end of the day in the american battlefield memorial ceremony at omaha beach, the carefully lined crosses represented the thousands for whom sacrifice was much more than a percentage of their income. it was 100% of their own hopes, dreams and lives. buried in france on land that americans proudly and respectfully oversee to preserve the dignity of their beth. stewart robinson, a local historian who spent the day with us took us to a place where american private john steal parachuted as part of the airborne operation and his parachute got caught on the steep elf the church in the center of the town. a scene that was immortalized in the classic film "the longest day." what they came to

their lives ended in places called belleau wood, the argonne, omaha beach, salerno, and halfway around the world on guadalcanal, tarawa, pork chop hill, the chosin reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called vietnam. under one such marker lies a young man, martin treptow, who left his job in a small town barbershop in 1917 to go to france with the famed rainbow division. there, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire. we're told that on his body was found a diary. on the flyleaf under the heading, "my pledge,'' he had written these words -- "america must win this war. therefore i will work, i will save, i will sacrifice, i will endure, i will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone.'' the crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that martin treptow and so many thousands of others were called upon to make. it does require, however, our best effort and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in o

think of omaha beach, they soften it up with the navy and bombing and aircraft and then the soldierso in. let's go to vince in colorado. >> caller: hi, jim, i'm wondering, i'm a business and economics student here in the university of denver, tee bow, land, if the markets stay strong because of the new medal class, there should be a way to take advantage of that, i think the firms will be surprised if they switch from exports to the internal market. >> how about the cpfl energy? buy utilities, when the country grows utility comes make sense. i think it's the best way to go. joe in arizona, joe? >> caller: hi, jim, a big desert booyah to you. first of all, i want to thank you for the second half of last year, recommending home gamers to switch to big high quality stocks paying big dividends, felt better in the crazy time. >> yes, particularly when the market was down by 19% and we did not hit much at all with the strategy. >> caller: no they were great stocks. from calculating the peg growth, is it current year divided by prior year? >> yeah, future year estimates, you know, you i loo

ago on the 40th anniversary of d-day, i read a letter whose from a young gal whose dad fought on omaha beach. if we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. it could result in erosion of american spirit. let's start with some basics. more attention to american history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual. let me offer lesson number one about america. all great change in america begins at the dinner table. well not in the kitchen, i hope the talking begins. children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an american, let them know and nail them on it. that would be a very american thing to do. [applause] >> i would like to thank the staff of the library. i call this afternoon. and i said i have been thinking about how to introduce this talk. it occurred to me is pretty stupid for me to quote rate and if i could get reagan to quote reagan. i think all of you will agree that there is a power in what he did and how he did it. that is at least 50% of why we're in the mess we're in. those of us lack the courage to take on school board and the teachers union and the n

to cannes over 60 miles at omaha beach took its place with gettysburg and valley forge in our historye successful allied invasion of normandy and d-day and what many believe is the greatest generation. a new survey of college students seems to suggest that today's young people believe they are the greatest, not the first type of college survey to suggest that, but the numbers in this particular research show what we're told is a surging sense of self-worth and guess what? the survey also shows it may not be well-founded. joining me now to discuss it liz stern parenting author and blogger, and jason dorsey, and author of why wise your business and the doctor, author of boundaries for leaders. fascinating, doing this since 1966 and apparently, this year's survey shows an unprecedented level of self-infatuation and it isn't well-founded. i love this part. that there is a disconnect between the students' opinions of themselves and their actual ability. now, it's one of those things you don't really need the researchers to tell you. if you know anybody in this age group right now, but what