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James M. Jeffords: “It reminded me of this Nation, as we march on toward the end of this millennium, that we do have an obligation to make a…”

On the recordSeptember 17, 1997
It reminded me of this Nation, as we march on toward the end of this millennium, that we do have an obligation to make a commitment to ourselves in this interim before we go to the next millennium to ensure that we have learned the lessons of history, especially in this Nation, now the most proud and important and strongest Nation in the world, of how we formed and how we lived our lives up through the time it was created in respect to its modern form of people arriving from Europe and other places, and the struggles that we had which were not easy ones.
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Editor's note · Context

Reflecting on the lessons of history during a discussion about the Battle of Antietam reenactment.

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