We are links in a vital chain both to the dead and to the unborn. We are, at one and the same time, the sons of sires who sleep in calm assurance, that we will not betray the trust that they confided to our hands; and the sires of sons who wait confident, in the beyond, that we will not cheat them of their birthright.
Urging senators to weigh their oath and their obligations to past and future generations before an upcoming decision.
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