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Men and women, don’t you think that I have the ancestral right to claim a proud kinship with those who showed their devotion to duty as they saw the duty, whether they wore the gray or whether they wore the blue?
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Roosevelt asserts his right to take pride in both Northern and Southern ancestors who served in the Civil War.
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