Remarks to the Community in Stockton, California
08/22/2002
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The men and women of the United States military represent the best of America, and they deserve the best America can give them.
On behalf of all Americans, we give thanks for the life of one of the great ambassadors in baseball history.
Your ship has come in.
He devoted his long and full life to baseball and refused to allow injustice and discrimination to diminish his love of the game.