07/26/2008
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"Today is the first Memorial Day in 14 years that the United States is not engaged in a major ground war."
"But our Gold Star families, our military families, our veterans, they know this, intimately."
"It is a debt we can never fully repay, but it is a debt we will never stop trying to fully repay."
"He was a wise pastor and a courageous man who persevered in the face of opposition from extremes on both sides."