Excerpts from the Press Conference
10/19/1942
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
The American people ask no finer example of tenacity, resourcefulness, and steadfast courage.
Now it is up to us at home to prove worthy of them.
They have set us an example of sacrifice, of unity, of singleness of purpose that we on the home front must emulate if the Nation is to surv...
Our men in uniform have proved worthy of America.