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Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 2: President Trump gave a very moving speech. If you haven't

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Speaker 2: heard it, you're about to. In twenty twenty was at

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Speaker 2: Fort McHenry on Memorial Day. The Battle of Fort McHenry,

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Speaker 2: you'll recall, was immortalized by Francis Scott Key in the

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Speaker 2: Star Spangled Banner, so I found this as a rather

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Speaker 2: appropriate place for this speech to be delivered. This was

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Speaker 2: around the time that pro athletes were still kneeling for

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Speaker 2: the anthem, and a little history lesson about our anthem

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Speaker 2: and its meaning was important. It was a long speech,

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Speaker 2: but trust me, it's worth the listen.

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Speaker 3: I stand before you at this noble fortress of American

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Speaker 3: liberty to pay tribute to the immortal souls who fought

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Speaker 4: To keep us free.

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Speaker 3: Earlier today, the first Lady and I later wreath then

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Speaker 3: their sacred honor at Arlington National Cemetery. Now we come

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Speaker 3: together to salute the flag they gave their lives to

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Speaker 3: so boldly and brilliantly defend, and we pledge in their

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Speaker 3: cherished memories that this majestic flag will proudly fly forever.

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Speaker 3: We're joined for today's ceremony by a number of service members,

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Speaker 3: and veterans of the armed forces. The dignity, daring, and

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Speaker 3: devotion of the American military is unrivaled anywhere in history

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Speaker 3: and any place in the world. In recent months, our

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Speaker 3: nation and the world have been engaged in a new

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Speaker 3: form of battle against an invisible enemy.

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Speaker 4: Once more.

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Speaker 3: The men and women of the United States Military have

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Speaker 3: answered the call to duty and raced into danger. Tens

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Speaker 3: of thousands of service members and National Guardsmen are on

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Speaker 3: the front lines of our war against this terrible virus,

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Speaker 3: caring for patients, delivering critical supplies, and working night and

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Speaker 3: day to safeguard. Since as one nation, we mourn alongside

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Speaker 3: every single family that has lost love once including the families.

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Speaker 4: Of our great veterans.

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Speaker 3: Together we will vanquish the virus, and America will rise

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Speaker 3: from this crisis to new and even greater heights. As

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Speaker 3: our brave warriors have shown us from the nation's earliest days.

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Speaker 4: In America, we are the captains of our own fate.

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Speaker 3: No obstacle, no challenge, and no threat is a match

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Speaker 3: for the sheer determination of the American people. This towering

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Speaker 3: spirit permeates every inch of the hollow soil beneath our feet.

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Speaker 3: In this place More than two hundred years ago, American

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Speaker 3: patriots stood their ground and repelled a British invasion in

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Speaker 3: the Battle of Baltimore during the War of eighteen twelve.

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Speaker 3: Early on September morning in eighteen fourteen, the British fleet

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Speaker 3: launched an assault on this peninsula. From the harbor, some

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Speaker 3: thirty British warships attacked this stronghold. Rockets rained down, bombs

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Speaker 3: A gallant young American was held captive. His name was

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Speaker 3: Francis Scott Key. For twenty five hours, Key watched in

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Speaker 3: dismay as fire crashed down upon this ground. But through

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Speaker 3: torrents of rain and smoke and the din of battle,

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Speaker 3: Key could make out fifteen broad stripes and fifteen bright stars,

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Speaker 3: barraged and battered, but still there. American forces did not waiver,

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Speaker 3: They did not retreat. They stared down the invasion and

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Speaker 3: the held that they had to endure. The fact is

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Speaker 4: They held this fort.

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Speaker 3: The British retreated, independence was saved. Francis Scott Key was

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Speaker 3: so inspired by the side of our flag in the

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Speaker 3: became howled, and he wrote a poem. His ageless words

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Speaker 3: became the anthem of our nation.

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Speaker 4: The Star Spangled banner.

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Speaker 3: Every time we sing our anthem, every time its rousing

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Speaker 3: chorus swells our hearts with pride, we renew the eternal

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Speaker 3: bonds of loyalty to our fallen heroes. We think of

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Speaker 3: the soldiers who spend their final heroic moments on distant

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Speaker 3: battlefields to keep us safe at home. We remember the

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Speaker 3: young Americans who never got the chance to grow old,

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Speaker 3: but whose legacy will outlive us all. In every generation,

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Speaker 3: these intrepid souls kissed goodbye to their families and loved ones.

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Speaker 3: They took flight in planes, set sail in ships, and

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Speaker 3: marched into battle with our flag, fighting for our country,

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Speaker 3: defending our people. When the cause of liberty was in jeopardy,

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Speaker 3: American warriors carried that flag through ice and snow to

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Speaker 3: great battleships in Manila Bay. They fought through hell to

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Speaker 3: Ocean called Ewajima. From the Philippine Sea to Fallusia from

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Speaker 3: New Orleans to Normandy, from Saratoga to Saipan, from the

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Speaker 3: blazing fires, sweltering deserts, and storms of bullets and shrapnel.

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Speaker 3: They climbed the top enemy tanks, jumped out of burning airplanes,

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Speaker 3: devotion was without limit, Their courage was beyond measure. Army

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Speaker 3: Green Beret Captain Daniel Eggers grew up in.

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Speaker 3: Determined to continue his family tradition of military service, and

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Speaker 3: Military College in South Carolina. Soon he met a beautiful cadet, Rebecca.

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Speaker 3: They fell in love, married and had two sons. In

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Speaker 3: in Afghanistan. On the morning of May twenty ninth, Daniel

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Speaker 3: and his team were courageously pursuing a group of deadly

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Speaker 3: This week is the sixteenth anniversary of the day that

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Speaker 3: Daniel made the supreme sacrifice for our nation. He laid

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Speaker 3: down his life to defeat evil and to save his

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Speaker 4: Today they have followed.

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Speaker 3: In Daniel's footsteps, both students at the Citadel, planning to

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Speaker 3: served more than twenty three years in the US Army.

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Speaker 3: Everywhere she goes she wears Daniel's gold star pin on

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Speaker 4: Father, Bill and mother Margot.

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Speaker 3: To the entire Eggars family, your sacrifice is beyond our

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Speaker 3: ability to comprehend the repay. Today we honor Daniel's incredible

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much for being here. Thank you very much. Please,

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Speaker 4: thank you, thank you great family. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: As Michael Very Show continues, this is the second part

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Speaker 1: of President Trump's Memorial Day speech at Fort McHenry in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: And yes, we had to split it up. I want

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Speaker 2: you to hear it all.

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Speaker 3: To every gold Star family here today and all across

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Speaker 3: our land. Our debt to you is infinite and everlasting.

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Speaker 3: We stand with you today and all days to come,

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Speaker 3: remembering and grieving for America's greatest heroes.

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Speaker 4: In spirit and strength, and.

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Speaker 3: Loyalty and love, in character and courage, they were larger

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Speaker 3: than life itself.

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Speaker 4: They were angels sent.

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Speaker 3: From above, and they are now rejoined with God in

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Speaker 3: the glorious Kingdom of Heaven. Wherever the stars and stripes

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Speaker 3: national monuments, it is made possible because there are extraordinary

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Speaker 3: two centuries since Francis Scott Key wrote about the stirring

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Speaker 3: have given their own testimony about the meaning of the flag.

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Speaker 3: One was War World War two veteran Jim Kribbs from Sunbury, Ohio.

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Speaker 3: Jim and his twin brother Jack, fought side by side

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Speaker 3: The twins volunteered for a dangerous mission together they took

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Speaker 3: Jim's brother, Jack was mortally wounded. Jim held his dying

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Speaker 3: Jim fought to victory and came home to build a

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Speaker 3: Jim was asked what about the American flag and what

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Speaker 4: Jim said, the flag to me.

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Speaker 3: Is as precious as the freedom that the flag stands for.

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Speaker 3: It's as precious to me as the thousands of lives

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Speaker 4: It's that important to me.

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Speaker 3: It gave me a value of life that I could

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Speaker 4: What more could I ask?

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Speaker 3: Last month, Jim died peacefully at his home at the

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Speaker 3: age of ninety four. This afternoon, we are greatly honored

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Speaker 3: to be joined by his grandsons Andy and Ron. Please,

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Speaker 4: For being here.

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Speaker 3: Today as we remember the sacrifice of Jim's brother Jack.

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Speaker 3: We honor jim service and we are moved by his

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Speaker 3: beautiful words. Andy and Ron, thank you for being here

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Speaker 3: From generation to generation, heroes like these have poured out

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Speaker 3: Because of them. America is strong and safe and mighty

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Speaker 4: Because of them.

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Speaker 3: Two centuries on, the Star Spangled banner still proudly waves.

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Speaker 4: For as long as our.

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Speaker 3: Flag flies in the sky above, the names of these

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Speaker 3: America's cause will never fail and American freedom will never

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Speaker 3: our military. God bless the memory of the fallen. God

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Speaker 3: bless our gold Star families, and God bless America.

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Speaker 4: The Michael Berry's show.

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Speaker 2: Brigadier General John Dragon Tiger is the Assistant Deputy Undersecretary

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Speaker 2: Force Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. He delivered a powerful keynote address

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Speaker 2: at the Memorial Day Service at the Bakersfield National Ceremony

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Speaker 2: back in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 5: So the poppies in southern California this year have been

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Speaker 5: absolutely stunning. It lived up to the hype of being

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Speaker 5: a super blue and those poppies covered fields, and they

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Speaker 5: covered hillsides, and they even covered the desert floor. But

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Speaker 5: about a century ago there was another super bloom in

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Speaker 5: Western Europe, and in that case, in the midst of

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Speaker 5: World War One, our soldiers found that poppies grew over

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Speaker 5: the battlefield in the midst of conflict, and sometimes over

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Speaker 5: those hastily created gravesides for our fallen. There was a

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Speaker 5: soldier named Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae who recognized this phenomenon

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Speaker 5: as a soldier there in the midst of World War

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Speaker 5: One in nineteen fifteen, and he wrote the following poem,

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Speaker 5: In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow between the crosses, row

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Speaker 5: the larks still bravely singing fly scarce heard amid the

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Speaker 5: now we lie in Flanders Fields. Take up our quarrel

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Speaker 5: with the foe to you from failing hands. We throw

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Speaker 5: the torch be yours to hold it high. If he

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Speaker 6: Today is the day we put aside to remember fallen

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Speaker 6: all of these men were different, but they shared this

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Speaker 6: It too has majesty and more. Perhaps you've seen it.

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Speaker 6: There's something wounded about them, a kind of resigned toughness.

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Speaker 6: Strong enough to create peace where it does not exist,

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Speaker 6: That's all I wanted to say. The rest of my

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