Let us live up to their example, to make each day count, to live with the sense of mutual regard, to live with that same compassion that they demonstrated in their final hours.
Barack Obama: “Let us live up to their example, to make each day count, to live with the sense of mutual regard, to live with that same…”
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Remarks at a Memorial Service for the Victims of the Tornado in Joplin
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