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Barack Obama: We owe it to all our veterans to honor them as we honored our Greatest Generation – not just with words, but with deeds.

On the recordDecember 6, 2008
We owe it to all our veterans to honor them as we honored our Greatest Generation – not just with words, but with deeds.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks by the President-Elect Announcing the Nomination of General Eric K. Shinseki as Secretary of Veterans Affairs

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