This needs to get done.
For 147 years, our Nation has set aside this day to pay solemn tribute to patriots who gave their last full measure of d...
They represent the best of who we are.
The Americans who rest beneath these beautiful hills and in sacred ground across our country and around the world, they ...
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.
Archbishop Romero was an inspiration for people in El Salvador and across the Americas.
So what we can do—what we must do—is fulfill our sacred obligations to them, just like they fulfilled theirs to us.
Today, in El Salvador and all of Central America, the United States is guided by the vision of Archbishop Romero.
I join people in El Salvador and around the world today in welcoming the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero.