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From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:jcma@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Thu Jun 3 23:33:12 1993
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 19:45-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Subject: Arlington National Cemetary: Remarks by the President 5.31.93
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
______________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release May 31, 1993
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY
AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, Virginia
11:30 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Distinguished leaders of the Armed
Services, the Defense Department, the Cabinet, the Congress, the
leaders of our veterans organizations here, to all the veterans and
their families who are here, and to all those here who are family
members of veterans buried in this cemetery or in any other place
around the globe. And to my fellow Americans:
We come together this morning, along with our countrymen
and women in cities across the land to honor those who died that we
might live in freedom, the only way that Americans can ever truly
live. Today we put aside our differences to better reflect on what
unites us.
The lines so often drawn between and among us, lines of
region or race or partisanship, all those lines fall away today as we
gaze upon the lines of markers that surround us on these hallowed
hills. The lines of difference are freedom's privilege. The lines
of these markers are freedom's cost.
Today Americans all across our land draw together in
shared experience and shared remembrance. And whether it is an older
veteran in Florida, or a teenager in New Mexico, or a mother in
Wisconsin, all today will bow their heads and put hand to heart. And
without knowing each other, still we will all be joined in spirit,
because we are Americans and because we know we are equal
shareholders in humanity's most uplifting dream.
Today, as we fly the American flag, some will recall the
pledge we began to recite daily as youngsters in grade school, with
solemn faith and awkward salute; some of us even before we learned
the difference between our right and left hands. Others will
remember the flag waving over public gatherings, large and very
small. But on this day, in this serene and solemn setting, conscious
of the past, conscious, too, of the perils all too present, what we
see most vividly in that flag are the faces of American soldiers who
gave their lives in battle; and the faces of this generation of young
servicemen and women, very, very much alive, still training and
preparing for possible conflicts tomorrow.
From the first militiaman downed at Lexington to today's
END11:36 A.M. EDT