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Barack Obama: All of us owe these men and women a profound debt of gratitude for the freedoms and standard of living we enjoy today.

On the recordDecember 6, 2011
All of us owe these men and women a profound debt of gratitude for the freedoms and standard of living we enjoy today.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Statement on National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

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