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On the recordDecember 13, 1898
The national cemeteries for those who fell in battle are proof that the dead as well as the living have our love.
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Bill McKinley
Republican · Ohio

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Speech Before the Legislature in Joint Assembly at the State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia

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