08/13/2003
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"I encourage all Americans to reflect on the Academy's incomparable history of contribution to our country's national security."
"Part of that cause was to liberate the Afghan people from terrorist occupation, and we did so."
"Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death."
"America will not forget the lives that were taken and the justice their death requires."