FDR: “It is our obligation to our dead--it is our sacred obligation to their…”

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It is our obligation to our dead--it is our sacred obligation to their children and to our children--that we must never forget what we have learned.

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Roosevelt speaks to the moral obligation to remember the lessons learned from conflict for future generations.

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