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Article: Remarks "saluting those who serve".(Week Ending Friday, January 21, 2005)(Transcript)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- January 24, 2005
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January 18, 2005
At ease. Thanks for the warm welcome. It is such a pleasure to be with the courageous men and women of the United States Armed Forces. As we prepare to celebrate our Nation's 55th Presidential Inauguration, I can think of no better way to begin than by giving thanks for our freedom and those who make it possible.
Please be seated. It may be a long speech. [Laughter]
Whether you serve in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, Marines, or Coast Guard, each of you has stepped forward to serve. You have risked your lives in faraway mountains and arid deserts, in perilous skies and on the high seas, to defend liberty and to free those ...