From the statement it seems to me a miracle that we ever took the beach at all it shows to me that something so catastrophic had happen that it would be a mircle if you where to live at all and because my knowledge about Dday that i know what went down that day over 160,000 troops 5,000 ships that is truely a mircle to live threw that.
It was "Detente" that was JFK's foreign policy tactic that supported peaceful coexistence with the soviet union, since this is what this word means in others contexts as well.
