{"id":19096,"date":"2009-11-10T15:34:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T20:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=19096"},"modified":"2011-06-03T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T23:18:07","slug":"from-president-obamas-comments-at-fort-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/from-president-obamas-comments-at-fort-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"From President Obama’s comments at Fort Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is Veterans Day. It is a chance to pause, and to pay tribute \u2013 for students to learn of the struggles that preceded them; for families to honor the service of parents and grandparents; for citizens to reflect upon the sacrifices that have been made in pursuit of a more perfect union. This generation of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen have volunteered in a time of certain danger.<\/em><\/p>\n

They are part of the finest fighting force that the world has ever known. They have served tour after tour of duty in distant, different and difficult places. They have stood watch in blinding deserts and on snowy mountains. <\/em><\/p>\n

They have extended the opportunity of self-government to peoples that have suffered tyranny and war. They are man and woman; white, black, and brown; of all faiths and stations \u2013 all Americans, serving together to protect our people, while giving others half a world away the chance to lead a better life.<\/em><\/p>\n

In today’s wars, there is not always a simple ceremony that signals our troops’ success \u2013 no surrender papers to be signed, or capital to be claimed. But the measure of their impact is no less great \u2013 in a world of threats that no know borders, it will be marked in the safety of our cities and towns, and the security and opportunity that is extended abroad. And it will serve as testimony to the character of those who serve, and the example that you set for America and for the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here, at Fort Hood, we pay tribute to thirteen men and women who were not able to escape the horror of war, even in the comfort of home. Later today, at Fort Lewis, one community will gather to remember so many in one Stryker Brigade who have fallen in Afghanistan.<\/em><\/p>\n

Long after they are laid to rest \u2013 when the fighting has finished, and our nation has endured; when today’s servicemen and women are veterans, and their children have grown \u2013 it will be said of this generation that they believed under the most trying of tests; that they persevered not just when it was easy, but when it was hard; and that they paid the price and bore the burden to secure this nation, and stood up for the values that live in the hearts of all free peoples.<\/em><\/p>\n

So we say goodbye to those who now belong to eternity. We press ahead in pursuit of the peace that guided their service. May God bless the memory of those we lost. And may God bless the United States of America.
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