10/05/1980
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"None is more deeply moving to Americans than Veterans Day."
"I urge all the families and friends of our sick and disabled veterans to visit them and extend to them a grateful nation's promise that they will not be forgotten."
"The strength of our democracy lies in the active participation of its citizens."
"Their extension would be in the national interest of the United States for the following reasons:"