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Woodrow Wilson: “A thrill has gone through my heart, as it has gone through the heart of every American, with almost every gun that was…”

On the recordDecember 24, 1918
A thrill has gone through my heart, as it has gone through the heart of every American, with almost every gun that was fired and every stroke that was struck in the gallant fighting that you have done; and there has been only one regret in America, and that was the regret that every man there felt that he was not here in France, too.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Remarks to United States Soldiers at Humes, France

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