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Barack Obama: We do not succumb to fear, nor will we squander the optimism that has always defined us as a people.

On the recordSeptember 10, 2010
We do not succumb to fear, nor will we squander the optimism that has always defined us as a people.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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

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