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Speaker 1: This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

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Speaker 2: Pray for our enemies because we're going to medieval on

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Speaker 2: these people.

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Speaker 1: You've not got a free shot.

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Speaker 2: All these networks lying about the people, the people have

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Speaker 2: had a belly full of it.

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Speaker 1: I know you don't like hearing that.

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Speaker 2: I know you've tried to do everything in the world

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Speaker 2: to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

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Speaker 1: It's going to happen.

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Speaker 3: And where do people like that go to share the

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Speaker 3: big line?

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Speaker 4: Mega media?

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Speaker 5: I wish in my soul, I wish that any of

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Speaker 5: these people had a conscience.

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Speaker 6: Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

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Speaker 6: If that answer is to save my country, this country

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Speaker 6: will be saved.

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Speaker 7: War.

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Speaker 3: Use your host, Stephen Kvas.

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Speaker 2: It's Tuesday, eleven November, in the year of our Lord

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. What heretofore, up until after World War

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Speaker 2: II was called Armistice Day because it was brought together

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Speaker 2: by the living to honor the armistice that was supposed

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Speaker 2: to the end the war. Because they fought to end

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Speaker 2: all future wars. That's what they thought they had done. Interestingly,

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Speaker 2: the law of unattended consequences was that the treaty that

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Speaker 2: they that they put together, particularly the economic consequences of

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Speaker 2: the peace, as John Maynard Kaines wrote later, was the

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Speaker 2: foundation for actually what drove a greater and more destructive

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Speaker 1: Rearmament and all the anger.

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Speaker 2: And suppression Tage talked about himself in his own personal journey,

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Speaker 2: but from the Germans and their allies. So we went

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Speaker 2: to a more destructive, even more destructive phase in what

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Speaker 2: I called a short twentieth century.

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Speaker 1: From nineteen fourteen to nineteen.

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Speaker 2: Patrick k O'donald President's en route, we're gonna I guess

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Speaker 2: when he gets there must be some security reason that

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Speaker 2: we're not showing that, But I don't see it right now.

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Speaker 2: My crackstaff will get it to us as soon as

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Speaker 2: we can find something. You've done a lot of coverage

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Speaker 2: of this. First off, what was Armistice Day? Why was

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Speaker 2: it such a not just a commemoration of the dead

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Speaker 2: that this was the war to end all wars? Remember

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Speaker 2: that was the pitch of the globalists of Wilson, these

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Speaker 2: dragged on forever. You think Ukraine's dragging on, World War

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Speaker 2: One could have dragged on for a long time. We

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Speaker 2: did it transition to veterans day, Sir.

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Speaker 4: Steve.

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Speaker 5: World War One is where the United States becomes a superpower,

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Speaker 5: Expeditionary Force in nineteen eighteen that smashes the Hindenburg Line

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Speaker 2: And then you have Armis's Day, and then after World

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Speaker 5: We shifted in June first, nineteen fifty four, to Veterans

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Speaker 5: One in this memory, and now it's to commemorate all

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Speaker 2: So this this became a big thing for us to

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Speaker 1: I guess the French and the British had done it

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Speaker 4: And then they brought several of those men back to a.

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Speaker 5: honor fell upon a young enlisted man, Younger was his name,

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Speaker 4: This was the an.

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Speaker 5: Elite unit within the American Expeditionary Force that fought in

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Speaker 5: And Younger is chosen because he's one of the most

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Speaker 4: They initially decided.

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Speaker 5: They were going to have a German or an American officer,

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Speaker 5: do the fighting, and it falls upon Younger. And I

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Speaker 5: tell the story in my book, The Unknowns Younger Story, as.

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Speaker 5: Second Infantry Division, but most more specifically the Marine Corps,

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Speaker 5: which they have eight men that are body bearers that

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Speaker 5: in the AF. The Kershing hand selects do they want

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Speaker 2: By the way, for black Jack Persian, who was our

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Speaker 2: they could fight right there on the screen you see

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Speaker 2: the Secret Service. And now it looks like they're deployed

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Speaker 2: at Arlington. Momentarily, we're gonna blow brakes and cover this

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Speaker 2: wall to wall as we always do.

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Speaker 1: The Commander in chief will be out. We'll be out shortly.

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Speaker 2: Taje Gil what is the patrick hang right?

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Speaker 2: What is the fighting spirit of the American force of

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Speaker 2: political involvement?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 2: You had your Marine, you had your army, special forces.

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Speaker 2: Every time they're about to win, the politicians step in

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Speaker 2: and take victory from them. And when we had the

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Speaker 2: premiere last week in DC, the Marines this is seventeen

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Speaker 2: it is twenty years after the battle. Actually said if

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Speaker 2: you let us off the chain, we will win. We

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Speaker 2: will win every time nobody can defeat us. What's the

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Speaker 2: spirit of your colleagues, the veterans on Veterans Day? About

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Speaker 2: political involvement in some of these decisions, sir, I mean

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Speaker 2: a lot.

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Speaker 8: Of the guys are disappointed with the politicians. And then

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Speaker 8: some of the guys I know, they don't even care.

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Speaker 8: They stay out of it completely. But look, we win

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Speaker 8: every battle on the battlefield we went at all the

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Speaker 8: politicians take the victory away from the American people, not

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Speaker 8: from the soldiers because on the ground we win always,

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Speaker 8: we win.

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Speaker 5: Patrick, absolutely, the Old Guards one of our oldest units,

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Speaker 15: While God is party, So it is so, it is so.

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Speaker 3: So say, distinguished guests.

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Speaker 11: It is now my distinct privilege to introduce the members

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Speaker 11: by Presidential order in nineteen fifty four to plan this

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Speaker 11: Please hold your applause until I have introduced each special guest.

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Speaker 11: Justin McClure, Army and Navy Union, United States of America,

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Speaker 11: Associate and emeritus members, please stand, Ladies and gentlemen, please

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Speaker 2: Okay, we're having a music interlude. The President, I think,

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Speaker 2: all this the it's Veterans Day, Patrick k o'donald, this

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Speaker 2: The President goes how it talked to us about that

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Speaker 2: you've got so many fantastic memorials, obviously at Washington Memorial,

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Speaker 5: Arlington is the most sacred of all sacred ground, Steve

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Speaker 5: You know carriage that is escorted by the body bearers.

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Speaker 5: It's the you know, the great cruiser that still is

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Speaker 4: You know, it's as he is.

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Speaker 5: Presiding, it's a healing of you know, where we had

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Speaker 2: I would like to have, you know, Arlington is obviously

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Speaker 2: Okay, here, we let's come back, and we're going to

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Speaker 11: Distinguished the President of the United States, accompanied by the

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Speaker 11: Vice President. Distinguished guests, Please remain standing for the procession

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Speaker 11: As we march on the colors, the United States Army

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Speaker 11: Hand over your heart or render a hand salute. Distinguished guests,

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Speaker 11: Executive Director of Chaplain Service for the United States Department

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Speaker 14: Good morning, Let us pray eternal and ever faithful God,

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Speaker 14: on this sacred morning. Beneath the quiet majesty of these

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Speaker 14: to reflect, and to recommit. We come before you as

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Speaker 14: the sleepless nights that lonely return, the unspoken burdens. You

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Speaker 14: have carried the tears of family, the prayers of caregivers, and.

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Speaker 3: The hope of a grateful people.

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Speaker 14: We remember those who fell, whose names rest beneath these stones,

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Speaker 14: silent sentinels of our nation's promise. We remember those who

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Speaker 14: yet bear, in body or spirit, the cost of service.

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Speaker 14: Grant them your healing, your strength.

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Speaker 3: And your peace.

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Speaker 14: And to families who waited, who worried, who bore the

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Speaker 14: weight of absence, extend your sustaining grasol comforter We give

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Speaker 14: thanks for the Department of Veteran Affairs, who daily honor

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Speaker 6: In honor of.

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Speaker 14: Those who served, Renew our covenant to tend the garden

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Speaker 14: to lead with integrity, To walk together as one people

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Speaker 14: words with true our action with compassion, Let freedom ring

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Speaker 14: not only on the battlefield, but in the everyday lives

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Speaker 14: of your people. God bless the United States of America,

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Speaker 14: that we may be true to the promise and trusted

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Speaker 14: to us, vigilant and peace, resolute in service, defender of justice,

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Speaker 14: and steadfast and gratitude. It is in your Holy name

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Speaker 14: we pray, Amen.

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Speaker 11: He did. I am honored to introduce the twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: The American Veterans, better known as am VETS.

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Speaker 11: The organization began in nineteen forty four when eighteen World

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Speaker 11: am VETS the first World War II veterans group chartered

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Speaker 11: by Congress. Over the decades, it's charter expanded to include

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Speaker 11: am VETS focuses on critical veterans issues such as mental health,

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Speaker 11: Representing AMVETS today is National Commander Paul Shipley, a US

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Speaker 11: of the youngest leaders in amvet's eighty year history. Please

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Speaker 11: join me in welcoming National Commander of Amvets and co

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Speaker 11: host of today's ceremony, mister Paul Shipley, who will lead

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Speaker 11: us in the Pledge of Allegiance and deliver remarks.

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Speaker 3: Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

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Speaker 17: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States

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Speaker 17: of America and to the Republic for which its hands,

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Speaker 17: One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Speaker 17: Good morning, mister President, Mister Vice President, Secretary of Collins,

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Speaker 17: and distinguished leaders of the Veteran Service Organizations of the

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Speaker 17: United States of America. Good morning and Happy Veterans Day. Today,

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Speaker 17: as we gather at this hollowed ground at Arlington National Cemetery,

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Speaker 17: we honor the brave men and women who have served

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Speaker 17: our nation with unwavering courage and sacrifice. It is a

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Speaker 17: solemn moment of remembrance, unity, and a renewal of our

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Speaker 17: commitment to those that have served. Today is also a

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Speaker 17: special celebration of all who put their lives on the

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Speaker 17: line for the United States of America. AMBETZ has a

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Speaker 17: proud history spanning over eighty years. Today, our top priorities

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Speaker 17: remain clear. We work tirelessly to prevent veterans suicide and

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Speaker 17: veteran homelessness, because no veteran should be alone in facing

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Speaker 17: these struggles. Promote awareness prisoners of war and missing inaction issues,

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Speaker 17: ensuring that no hero is ever forgotten, and we are

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Speaker 17: committed to supporting veterans families help keeping them united through

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Speaker 17: life's toughest challenges. As the host of this year's Veterans

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Speaker 17: Day and National Committee, am Bess is honored to participate

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Speaker 17: alongside dedicated Department of Veteran Fairs staff and our fellow

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Speaker 17: Veteran service organizations. Together we organize this event honor our

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Speaker 17: fallen and to reaffirm our duty to those who have served.

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Speaker 17: In the spirit of veterans serving veterans, I challenge each

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Speaker 17: of us here today we're watching from home, to find

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Speaker 17: ways to support our veterans, whether through a simple act

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Speaker 17: of kindness, volunteering, or advocating for policies that make a difference.

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Speaker 17: Your efforts matter because supporting our veterans is not just

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Speaker 17: a duty. It's a reflection of our gratitude and respect.

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Speaker 17: Let us remember today that their sacrifices have made the

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Speaker 17: freedoms we enjoy possible, and let us pledge to continue serving,

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Speaker 17: protecting and honoring all who have served our nation. Thank you,

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Speaker 17: God bless our veterans, and God bless America. It is

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Speaker 17: now my humble honor to introduce the twelfth Secretary of

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Speaker 17: the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Speaker 3: Secretary Doug Collins is.

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Speaker 17: An accomplished attorney with more than a decade of legislative experience,

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Speaker 17: representing the people of Georgia in the state legislature and

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Speaker 17: later the US House of Representatives.

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Speaker 3: As a US Air Force Reserve.

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Speaker 17: Chaplain, Secretary of Collins has ministered to our country's military

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Speaker 17: since two thousand and two. He completed a two thousand

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Speaker 17: and eight and two thousand and nine deployment in Iraq

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Speaker 17: while stationed at Ballot Airbase.

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Speaker 3: Collins remains a colonel in.

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Speaker 17: The United States Air Force Reserve, and he previously served

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Speaker 17: in the US Navy Reserve. Please join me in warmly

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Speaker 17: welcoming Via Secretary Doug Collins.

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Speaker 6: Good morning everyone, Miss President, Miss Vice President, all of thesos,

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Speaker 6: all of our veterans staff here today and welcome you

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Speaker 6: to a place in which we honor our veterans, those

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Speaker 6: who have served. I tell you what, it was an.

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Speaker 3: Honor to be here, but it is even bigger honor.

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Speaker 6: Just over a year ago, when President asked me to

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Speaker 6: take this job, and I asked him a simple question,

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Speaker 6: I said, mister President, what would you like me to do?

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Speaker 6: And he looked at me with a simple phrase, he said,

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Speaker 6: take care of our veterans. I tell all the rest

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Speaker 6: of the cabinet, I've got the best job in the

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Speaker 6: world because I get to take care of the best

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Speaker 6: people in the world, the veterans of the United States

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Speaker 6: of America. And this President is firmly committed to making

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Speaker 6: sure this happens. The VA is a different place today

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Speaker 6: than it was just nine months ago. Nine months ago,

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Speaker 6: there was more of an inner reflection. Now it is

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Speaker 6: an outer reflection. The only thing that matters that the

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Speaker 6: VA is that the veteran comes first. All we do

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Speaker 6: is not about a bureaucracy or where we're from. It's

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Speaker 6: about the veteran who walks through our door. Without the veteran,

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Speaker 6: we have no job. The VA now understands that we

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Speaker 6: do nothing else except take care of the veteran and

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Speaker 6: do things for them. And under that direction from the President,

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Speaker 6: we have lord backlogs. We've increased wait times and yes,

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Speaker 6: mister President, we get community when they want to go

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Speaker 6: to the community to see those doctors. And that's only

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Speaker 6: just in the first nine months. But the best part

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Speaker 6: of this is that there is something to understand. Is

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Speaker 6: a Veterans Day. Unlike the others we celebrate, it's about

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Speaker 6: everyday people doing extraordinary things. Veterans Day is about men

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Speaker 6: and women who come from small towns, hamlets, villages and

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Speaker 6: big towns and they make a decision in their life

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Speaker 6: to raise their right hand and say, I'm committing to

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Speaker 6: something bigger than myself. I'm stepping forward where many will not.

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Speaker 6: I am raising my right hand and committing myself to

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Speaker 6: service to a country, as I said just the other day,

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Speaker 6: to make and ensure that our military is the biggest

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Speaker 6: and baddest.

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Speaker 4: In the world.

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Speaker 3: Our veterans make that possible.

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Speaker 6: It comes from people all over as I served with

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Speaker 6: in Iraq. What I love about Veterans Day is it

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Speaker 6: tells the story of.

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Speaker 3: A young girl. She was in her early twenties.

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Speaker 6: I met on the fields and a wind just like

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Speaker 6: this in the desert of a rack. She had showed

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Speaker 6: up late, and I was on the night Shaplain run

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Speaker 6: and I'd always saw everybody else, but I didn't recognize her.

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Speaker 3: And I walked up.

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Speaker 6: To the gate and she said, I said, where have

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Speaker 6: you been. I said, I haven't seen you here. She said, sir,

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Speaker 6: I'm a little bit late and deploying with my troops.

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Speaker 6: I said, well, what was the reason? And I figured,

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Speaker 6: I said, you could you know? I figured, why are

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Speaker 6: you coming?

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Speaker 14: In?

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Speaker 6: Three or four weeks later she said, well, sir, just

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Speaker 6: about two months ago I had my daughter and I

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Speaker 6: looked at her and I said, and you came anyway?

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Speaker 6: I said, you know, you could probably got an affirm

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Speaker 6: of that. She said, no, Sir, she said, I'd go

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Speaker 6: where my troops go. I go where they go, and

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Speaker 6: that for the rest of the time I was there,

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Speaker 6: we shared pictures of one growing up, a little one,

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Speaker 6: taking first crawls and moves, and sharing it in the

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Speaker 6: night sky over a rack. That is a veteran who

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Speaker 6: serves because they want to serve others.

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Speaker 3: I remember an a.

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Speaker 6: One C who was on deployment and he came back

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Speaker 6: and he said, I am now making big money. He said,

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Speaker 6: I can actually help my family and I can buy

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Speaker 6: Christmas presents for those that didn't get any last year.

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Speaker 6: It's about the stories of those as a young man

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Speaker 6: and just a little bit young because he's in his

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Speaker 6: eighties at one of our VA hospitals in hospice who

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Speaker 6: I walked in on him just the other day and

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Speaker 6: he was playing on a keyboard. Just a closer walk

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Speaker 6: with the veterans. Day is about veterans that were not

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Speaker 6: special necessarily when they came up, but they saw a

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Speaker 6: vision and a calling and they said, I want to

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Speaker 6: be a part of our armed services. So when they

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Speaker 6: raised their hand, they made a choice to become one

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Speaker 6: of our favorite.

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Speaker 3: In the world. And that is a veteran who serves

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Speaker 3: this country.

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Speaker 1: So as we come to this day of.

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Speaker 6: Service, this day of happy Thanksgiving for people who are

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Speaker 6: willing to serve, I would just have one word from

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Speaker 6: the half of this administration, and I want everyone to

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Speaker 6: hear it. Clearly, whether you're in the media, Congress, or

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Speaker 6: anywhere else.

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Speaker 3: I'm a little bit tired.

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Speaker 6: Of people saying saying that veterans keep getting stuff. Nope,

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Speaker 6: veterans do not get anything from this country.

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Speaker 3: They have earned everything that they are.

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Speaker 6: Getting, and I am committed to making sure they will

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Speaker 6: always have that from this administration and this VA. And

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Speaker 6: that is my promise, in this President's promise to you.

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Speaker 6: And with that, it is my honor to introduced to

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Speaker 6: you a father, a husband, and yes, for those in

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Speaker 6: the audience, a marine.

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Speaker 3: Oh come on, Marines, here we go. My Marines. Ain't

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Speaker 3: let me down on.

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Speaker 6: This one, because now I get to introduce the great

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Speaker 6: Vice President of the United States. It is his honor,

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Speaker 6: it is his marine, and I'm making him wait just

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Speaker 6: a minute, it is mister Vice President is.

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Speaker 15: Ready to help it out.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Well, Thank you, Doug.

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Speaker 16: You're doing a great job at the VA. And I

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Speaker 16: want to say just a couple of things. I've learned

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Speaker 16: a couple of things from working so closely with the

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Speaker 16: President of the United States. The first thing is that

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Speaker 16: he loves our nation's veterans and has committed our nation's

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Speaker 16: administration to putting our veterans first, every single day. And

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Speaker 16: the second thing I've learned about the President of United

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Speaker 16: States is that he really hates when somebody who's speaking

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Speaker 16: before him goes on for too long. And so with

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Speaker 16: that in mind, I prepared a very brief and very

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Speaker 16: inspiring one hour and forty five minute speech on this

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Speaker 16: beautiful Veterans Day out here in the cold. But let

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Speaker 16: me just give three very brief messages. First to our

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Speaker 16: nation's veterans. Thank you, Thank you for serving and sacrificing.

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Speaker 16: We've all got so many good stories of people that

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Speaker 16: we served with over the years. During my four years

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Speaker 16: of the Marine Corps, I met the very best of America,

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Speaker 16: people who are willing to put on a uniform and

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Speaker 16: risk their lives for their entire country. Just yesterday morning,

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Speaker 16: I met people who lost limbs, who lost very very

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Speaker 16: important family members, who lost their psychological health going out

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Speaker 16: there and serving the United States of America. So, whether

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Speaker 16: you gave a little bit or whether you gave a lot,

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Speaker 16: every single person who put on the uniform of this

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Speaker 16: nation deserves our gratitude on this day especially, but every day,

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Speaker 16: and so from the Vice President and the entire administration

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Speaker 16: to our nation's veterans. Thank you for your service, thank

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Speaker 16: you for your sacrifice, and thank you for making us

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Speaker 16: proud every single day. The second message is to the

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Speaker 16: nation's political leaders. I happen to believe that the most

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Speaker 16: valuable resource that we have isn't the incredible wealth of

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Speaker 16: natural resources of this country, as amazing as it is.

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Speaker 16: The most important natural resource that we have is that

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Speaker 16: we have hundreds of thousands of young people every single

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Speaker 16: month who sign up to put on the uniform and

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Speaker 16: risk their lives for their fellow citizens. That is a

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Speaker 16: resource we cannot squander. That is a resource we must protect.

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Speaker 3: And so to every.

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Speaker 16: Elected official who's here today, our obligation, our sacred responsibility

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Speaker 16: to our veterans is to make sure that the American

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Speaker 16: military is the bravest and best fighting force anywhere in

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Speaker 16: the world, and to make sure that every time we

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Speaker 16: ask our nation's military to go off to war, we.

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Speaker 3: Give them the training, we give them.

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Speaker 16: The resources, and we give them what they need to

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Speaker 16: kick the enemy's rear in and to come back home

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Speaker 16: safely and quickly. That is our obligation to you. And

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Speaker 16: my third and final message to the American people, I'm

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Speaker 16: asked all the time how to best honor our veterans,

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Speaker 16: and this day in particular gives you an opportunity, and

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Speaker 16: it doesn't have to be difficult, and it doesn't have

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Speaker 16: to be complicated. If you find yourself at a restaurant

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Speaker 16: this evening and you see somebody wearing a uniform, buy

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Speaker 16: them a meal if you're able, or buy them a beer.

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Speaker 16: If you see a veteran of our nation's armed forces,

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Speaker 16: if you know somebody in your family, give them a

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Speaker 16: call and say thank you. I heard already this morning

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Speaker 16: for my mother in law, who sent me a message

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Speaker 16: early California time, and it touched my heart just knowing

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Speaker 16: that we have loved ones who recognize our service, who

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Speaker 16: care about it, and who care enough to go out.

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Speaker 3: And say thank you. So the American people.

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Speaker 16: If we want to keep on ensuring that the very

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Speaker 16: best and brightest sign up for our military, the very

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Speaker 16: best way to do it is to make sure that

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Speaker 16: the veterans know that we are grateful to them. And

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Speaker 16: so it's with great pride that I am introducing a

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Speaker 16: man who is proud of our veterans, who fights every

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Speaker 16: single day for the veterans, and who is proud to

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Speaker 16: be the commander in chief of the United States Armed Forces.

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Speaker 1: President Donald S.

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Speaker 4: Trump,