Barack Obama: “We will not let the acts of some small band of murderers distort who…”

On the recordSeptember 10, 2010

We will not let the acts of some small band of murderers distort who we are.

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

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