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Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004) (TV)

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King George VI: I am impressed by the detail the comprehensiveness of your planning. The expected losses, the sheer carnage.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: I also ache at that thought your majesty, I remember my first trip to Europe as a young man, and I felt blessed to be here, to see it, to touch the origins of my own country that I love so dearly. I hope one day all young Americans will have the same opportunity. Now hundred's of thousands will, along with Britons, Canadians and European Allies fighting to return home, this kind of visit isn't what I had in mind. But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some most die it is in a worthy cause.

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Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith: Last one at the dance or the first?
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Hell it's just the way it is Bedell, one minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.

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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Dearest Mimi…
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: …at last the days grow longer and we will soon be in it, I face that with neither dread nor joy. How I wish this cruel business of war could be completed quickly. It leaves me heart sick to think of sending so many young men against Hitler's Atlantic wall. I admit to having developed venire callousness, but counting the human cost is a terribly sad business, and no venire of callousness allows me to escape the truth of back home the news brings anguish and suffering. So many youngsters already gone forever, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters back home must have a difficult time back home retaining any belief in the internal rightness of things. There is no true glory in war.

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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: I'm not sending a bunch of fresh young kids to die for a people they no nothing about, I'm asking them to die for freedom and there ready to do it and that's why there heroes.

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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.

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