Ronald Regan Patriotic Speech — Transcript

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1. 0:01if we look to the
2. 0:03answer as to why for so many years we
3. 0:06achieved so much prospered as no other
4. 0:09people on Earth it was because here in
5. 0:12this land we unleashed the energy and
6. 0:15individual Genius of man to a greater
7. 0:17extent than has ever been done before
8. 0:20freedom and the Dignity of the
9. 0:22individual have been more available and
10. 0:25assured here than in any other place on
11. 0:28Earth the price price for this Freedom
12. 0:30at times has been high but we have never
13. 0:34been unwilling to pay that price those
14. 0:38who say that we're in a time when there
15. 0:40are no
16. 0:42Heroes they just don't know where to
17. 0:45look the sloping Hills of Arlington
18. 0:48National Cemetery with its row upon row
19. 0:52of simple white markers bearing crosses
20. 0:55or stars of David they add up to only a
21. 0:58tiny fraction of the price that has been
22. 1:01paid for our
23. 1:03freedom each one of those markers is a
24. 1:07monument to the kind of hero I spoke of
25. 1:10earlier their lives
26. 1:12ended in places called Bellow wood the
27. 1:16Argon Omaha Peach salero and Halfway
28. 1:21Around the World on guad Canal teraa
29. 1:24pork chop Hill the Chosin Reservoir and
30. 1:28in a 100 rice patties and jungles of a
31. 1:31place called
32. 1:33Vietnam under one such
33. 1:35marker lies a young man Martin trep out
34. 1:40who left his job in a small town barber
35. 1:43shop in
36. 1:441917 to go to France with the famed
37. 1:47Rainbow
38. 1:48division there on the Western
39. 1:51Front he was killed trying to carry a
40. 1:55message between battalions under heavy
41. 1:57artillery fire we told that on his body
42. 2:02was found a
43. 2:03diary on the fly leaf under the heading
44. 2:06my pledge he had written these
45. 2:11words America must win this
46. 2:14war therefore I will work I will save I
47. 2:19will
48. 2:20sacrifice I will
49. 2:23endure I will fight cheerfully and do my
50. 2:26utmost as if the issue of the whole stru
51. 2:31depended on me
52. 2:34alone we must realize that no Arsenal or
53. 2:38no weapon in the arsenals of the world
54. 2:41is so formidable as the will and moral
55. 2:44courage of free men and women it is a
56. 2:48weapon our adversaries in today's world
57. 2:50do not have it is a weapon that we as
58. 2:53Americans do have let that be understood
59. 2:57by those who practice terrorism and pray
60. 3:00upon their neighbors as for the enemies
61. 3:02of Freedom those who are potential
62. 3:06adversaries they will be reminded that
63. 3:08peace is the highest aspiration of the
64. 3:10American people we will negotiate for it
65. 3:15sacrifice for it we will not surrender
66. 3:19for it now or
67. 3:21ever we are Americans