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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is difficult to express the full measure of obligation under which this country is to the men who from ’61 to ’65…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1900
It is difficult to express the full measure of obligation under which this country is to the men who from ’61 to ’65 took up the most terrible and vitally necessary task which has ever fallen to the lot of any generation of men in the Western Hemisphere.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Reflecting on the Civil War, Roosevelt articulates the profound debt the nation owes to those who fought to preserve the Union.

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