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From: "E.A. McElfresh" <>
Subject: Re: [KYBRACKE] The Wall.... NEVER forget... jd <>< list mom
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 09:34:15 -0700
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Leave Bush out of it. Not all of us voted for him.

Jeannie Dalrymple wrote:

> http://www.ishaah.com/Wall.htm
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Sunday, May 27, 2001
> WASHINGTON - President Bush urged Americans on Saturday to take a moment
> this Memorial Day weekend to "appreciate the price that was paid for our own
> lives" by those who serve in the nation's armed forces.
>
> In his weekly radio address, taped before he went to Camp David, Md., for
> the weekend, Bush said he would mark Memorial Day by holding a White House
> breakfast Monday for military veterans "who knew and remember the people who
> never came back from our nation's wars."
>
> "We are in their debt, more than a lifetime of Memorial Days could ever
> repay," Bush said. "In the end, all we can do is be thankful. All we can do
> is remember and always appreciate the price that was paid for our own lives
> and our own freedom."
>
> The president, who served in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam
> War, referred fleetingly to the military service of his father, a Navy
> aviator during World War II.
>
> "Most of us know war veterans; I had the privilege of being raised by one,"
> Bush said. "Usually, they are reticent about their experiences. It is often
> difficult for them to think back on those names and faces, on the ones who
> never lived to be called veterans. But on Memorial Day, we accept our
> obligation to do just that."
>
> He called on Americans to "remember the heroism, the hardship, the national
> gain and personal loss" of war. Presidents, he said, have made the decisions
> in the White House, but the success - or failure - of those decisions rested
> on the shoulders of the men and women who fought those wars.
>
> "America has been given so much, but of all our assets, resources and
> strengths, none have counted for more than the courage of young soldiers in
> the face of battle," Bush said. "Victory has always come down to the people
> flying the planes, manning the ships, carrying the gun and the pack. ...
> They have defended us. They have died for us. They have never disappointed
> us."
>
> After Monday's breakfast, Bush plans to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the
> Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery before flying to Mesa, Ariz., for
> another Memorial Day ceremony.
>
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