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Barack Obama: “It is a debt we can never fully repay, but it is a debt we will never stop trying to fully repay.”

On the recordMay 24, 2015
It is a debt we can never fully repay, but it is a debt we will never stop trying to fully repay.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Memorial Day Ceremony in Arlington

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