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The_Edwards_Notebook-What_Kennedy_Said120424 · The Ron Edwards American Experience V2

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  Speaker 1: During the Cuban missile crisis and Americans fear of war,
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  Speaker 1: President John F. Kennedy shared an inspirational nineteen sixty one
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  Speaker 1: inaugural address he LOI Ron Edwards on today's page from
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  Speaker 1: the Average Notebook. Kennedy stated, and I quote, the torch
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  Speaker 1: has been passed to a new generation of Americans born
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  Speaker 1: in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by hard and
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  Speaker 1: bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to
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  Speaker 1: witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights
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  Speaker 1: to which this nation has always been committed. In the
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  Speaker 1: long history of the world, only a few generations have
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  Speaker 1: been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour
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  Speaker 1: of maximum danger. The energy, the faith, the devotion which
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  Speaker 1: we bring to this endeavor will light our country and
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  Speaker 1: all who serve it, and the glow from that fire
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  Speaker 1: can only light the world. And so, my fellow Americans,
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  Speaker 1: ask not what your country can do for you, but
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  Speaker 1: ask what you can do for your country for the
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  Speaker 1: good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final
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  Speaker 1: judge of our deeds. Let us go forth to lead
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  Speaker 1: the land we love, asking his blessing and his help,
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  Speaker 1: but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly
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