Tomorrow world leaders will gather in Normandy to commemorate those who fought to free Western Europe.

Today, tomorrow and for the rest of the week, the world will honor the man who freed the rest of Europe: Ronald Reagan.

It's no coincidence that some of the impromptu memorials to Reagan include cowboy hats. He was our Cowboy President. The European and Ivy League intellectuals may regard that title with contempt, but Americans understand what it means and it's one of the reasons we love Reagan. He saw the Soviet Union for the evil empire it was. He called a spade a spade. He accepted the challenge of defeating that evil. He fought the battle and won. And today millions of people in Eastern Europe owe their very freedom to him. I'll be surprised if we don't see an outpouring of love for Reagan from the free people of the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, etc. this week.

My fervent hope is that someday when George W. Bush is laid to rest, he'll be similarly honored by the free people of Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and more. We honor our WWII veterans and we honor Ronald Reagan because they engaged in the most noble of causes-liberation. Let's not lose sight of the nobility of our current campaigns: liberating millions from the noose of islamofascism.