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To you and the honored dead, our country is forever grateful.

Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you.

Today, we remember your loss, we share your sorrow and we honor the men and women that you have loved so long and so well.

Laura and I are fortunate to have known Andrew Wyeth and to have had the pleasure of enjoying his work.