[Encore post from 2007.]
Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.
Order of the Day, 6 June, 1944 (some sources list this as issued 2 June)
- Photo: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower talks with paratroopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, June 5, 1944; photo credit unclear; from Ohio State University
- Be sure to check out the follow-up post, on the exigency message Ike didn’t have to use.
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
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That follow-up, unsent message: one of my all-time ‘tub favorites. I still print it out and ask people to figure out what they are looking at. An amazing piece of almost-history, and a nice piece of taking responsibility.
Jonathan
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