"You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us."
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"Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace."
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"Freedom is never free."
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"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
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"That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier."
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"In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose."
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"I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not; The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd, And the armies that remain'd suffer'd."
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"Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not."
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"The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts."
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