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Honoring Those Still Serving
In the long history of the world, only a few generations
have been granted
the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy
In the first place, we should insist that if
the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an
American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated
on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an
outrage to discriminate against any such man because of
creed, or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon
the persons becoming in every facet an American, and nothing
but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here.
Any man who says he is an American, but something else also,
isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the
American flag. We have room for but one language here, and
that is the English language and we have room for but one
sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
Theodore Roosevelt - 1907 |
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