The wounds won't heal, the American family will not be whole, as I said earlier, so long as the brave men remain missing.
George H.W. Bush: “The wounds won't heal, the American family will not be whole, as I said earlier, so long as the brave men remain…”
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Remarks to the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia in Arlington, Virginia
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