12/26/1943
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"the said Rudolph Forster and Maurice C. Latta are hereby exempted and further exempted, respectively, from compulsory retirement for age."
"The better world for which you fight—and for which some of you give your lives—will not come merely because we shall have won the war."
"The cornerstone of this hospital was laid by me on Armistice Day, 1940."
"Battles cannot be fought and won without cost—we know that—and the cost may be heavy in ships and in men."