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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Today our civilians are, because of the Guard, better prepared even than those men were, but the same spirit is there.”

On the recordSeptember 24, 1962
Today our civilians are, because of the Guard, better prepared even than those men were, but the same spirit is there.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks Upon Accepting a Painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill.

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