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Barack Obama: “We honor all those who gave their lives so that others might live.”

On the recordSeptember 10, 2009
We honor all those who gave their lives so that others might live.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at a Wreath-Laying Ceremony at the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington

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