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Document No. 24334/
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 6/5/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: THURSDAY 6/6/91 10:00 a.m
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING, ARLINGTON CEMETERY
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
N/C
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
Goup
DARMAN N/C
ROGICH N/L
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
Rattander
GRAY
22%
N/C
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than 10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 6, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
V
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN - 5 AMII: 28
June 4, 1991
Draft Two
STORM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991
10 A.M.
We meet today to remember the men and women who gave their
lives to their nation / and to the ideal of freedom / during
Operation Desert Storm.
All across our land, people celebrate our victory in that
war. Troops march, crowds cheer, streamers fill the air. Later
today, crowds will gather to watch troops march triumphantly from
Washington to the Pentagon. I'm sure they'll raise a happy
(Porter)
ruckus, that they'll embrace our troops and their cause.
But war also deserves quiet, sober remembrance. Here in
this quiet place we can offer humble homage to young people who
last summer answered their country's call -- and never returned.
I love this place: this hill sloping gently toward the
(Porter)
Potomac; the grasses and trees. Here you find no hype Here you
(smith)
hear no shouts and screams. Here, trees rustle and birds sing.
Here, we can pause to remember, to sigh, to fight the untreatable
ache of loss, (to to whisper silently to those who cannot whisper
(Smith)
back.)
We confront mysteries here. We celebrate the fact that each
person we commemorate today gave up life for principles larger
than each of us -- principles that at the same time form the
muscle and sinew of our national heart.
2
Dwight Eisenhower once spoke of the "most ennobling virtues
of man -- faith, courage, fortitude, sacrifice." He knew that
America grew out of brave men's dreams of a commonwealth of
freedom -- of virtue. He knew that America endures because it
dares to defend that dream. //
That dream links the fields of Flanders and the rugged
cliffs of Normandy. Korea's snow-covered uplands and the rice
paddies of Mekong. // It has lived in the last year on barren
desert flats; on sea-tossed ships; in jets streaking miles above
hostile terrain. It lives because we dared risk our most
precious asset: our sons and daughters / our brothers and sisters
/ our husbands and wives -- the finest soldiers, sailors, airmen
(DOT)
Coast Guardsmen + Merchant mariners
and marines that any nation every has ever known. //
The heroes of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm came
our great Cities and our small towns
(120)
from the tenements of New York / the towns of Mississippi the
plains of America's giant, sprawling checkerboard. They were
rural and urban, native-born and foreign-born, black and white
(Porter)
and red and brown, privileged and the poor //
Far away, they battled the inner enemy of fear and won.
Then they set an embattled nation free. They went to the Gulf
not because it was the expedient way but because it was the
American way. / They showed how the human will could outlast
bayonets and barbed wire. / They reminded us that America's role
as the custodian of liberty is not just our duty but our destiny.
// And through their sacrifice, they renewed our faith in
ourselves. //
3
From the time Operation Desert Shield began, a sacred bond
grew between Americans here at home and those serving in the
Gulf. / Think of the yellow ribbons that joined this Nation's
hands, and souls. Think of how the American Family has perhaps
never been more united. // Every day we knelt on our knees for
the heroes of the Gulf -- and for the unsung heroes -- the
military families. There have been no parades for them, nor will
they be immortalized in statues and monuments. Yet in little
kindnesses and deeds, they reached out to each other -- neighbor
to neighbor; often, stranger to stranger. They gave love without
strings. They gave brotherhood. //
Each of you helped make the Persian Gulf War an historic
war. Spouses, children, parents, friends -- all showing how, as
Woodrow Wilson said, "war is a dramatic symbol for a thousand
forms of duty. " The enemies of peace could not match the
combined prayers of 250 million Americans -- and the collective
courage of half a million troops who knew that aggression must
not stand. //
Today, we commemorate not only history but sacrifice and
bravery. / So let me close with a story of how a woman,
,
returned from naval duty off Saudi Arabia. As her two young
daughters leapt into her arms, crying and hugging, a reporter
asked if she'd do it again. // She replied, simply -- "I'd go
back tomorrow if my country called. " //
I don't know how anyone can fail to tremble -- in joy,
admiration and awe -- upon hearing her reply. Answering the call
4
made America free, and answering the call has kept us free.
Today, we hope that this time was the last time -- but stand
prepared to respond again should there ever be a next time. //
Our goal is real peace -- the triumph of freedom, not merely the
absence of war. Our means is the courage, and character, of a
people called Americans. //
Let us remember the heroes of the Gulf -- those with us;
those we honor today -- so that mankind will say: Just as they
honored America, we honored them with the lives we lead. // God
bless them / let their glory pass from one generation to the next
// and God bless our nation -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
staffed R
(Smith/Grossman)
June 4, 1991
Draft Two
STORM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991
10 A.M.
We meet today to remember the men and women who gave their
lives to their nation / and to the ideal of freedom / during
Operation Desert Storm.
All across our land, people celebrate our victory in that
war. Troops march, crowds cheer, streamers fill the air. Later
today, crowds will gather to watch troops march triumphantly from
Washington to the Pentagon. I'm sure they'll raise a happy
ruckus, that they'll embrace our troops and their cause.
But war also deserves quiet, sober remembrance. Here in
this quiet place we can offer humble homage to young people who
last summer answered their country's call -- and never returned.
I love this place: this hill sloping gently toward the
Potomac; the grasses and trees. Here you find no hype. Here you
hear no shouts and screams. Here, trees rustle and birds sing.
Here, we can pause to remember, to sigh, to fight the untreatable
ache of loss, to whisper silently to those who cannot whisper
back.
We confront mysteries here. We celebrate the fact that each
person we commemorate today gave up life for principles larger
than each of us -- principles that at the same time form the
muscle and sinew of our national heart.
2
Dwight Eisenhower once spoke of the "most ennobling virtues
of man -- faith, courage, fortitude, sacrifice." He knew that
America grew out of brave men's dreams of a commonwealth of
freedom -- of virtue. He knew that America endures because it
dares to defend that dream. //
That dream links the fields of Flanders and the rugged
cliffs of Normandy. Korea's snow-covered uplands and the rice
paddies of Mekong. // It has lived in the last year on barren
desert flats; on sea-tossed ships; in jets streaking miles above
hostile terrain. It lives because we dared risk our most
precious asset: our sons and daughters / our brothers and sisters
/ our husbands and wives -- the finest soldiers, sailors, airmen
and marines that any nation every has known. //
The heroes of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm came
from the tenements of New York / the towns of Mississippi / the
plains of America's giant, sprawling checkerboard. They were
rural and urban, native-born and foreign-born, black and white
and red and brown, privileged and the poor. //
Far away, they battled the inner enemy of fear and won.
Then they set an embattled nation free. They went to the Gulf
not because it was the expedient way but because it was the
American way. / They showed how the human will could outlast
bayonets and barbed wire. / They reminded us that America's role
as the custodian of liberty is not just our duty but our destiny.
// And through their sacrifice, they renewed our faith in
ourselves. //
3
From the time Operation Desert Shield began, a sacred bond
grew between Americans here at home and those serving in the
Gulf. / Think of the yellow ribbons that joined this Nation's
hands, and souls. Think of how the American Family has perhaps
never been more united. // Every day we knelt on our knees for
the heroes of the Gulf -- and for the unsung heroes -- the
military families. There have been no parades for them, nor will
they be immortalized in statues and monuments. Yet in little
kindnesses and deeds, they reached out to each other -- neighbor
to neighbor; often, stranger to stranger. They gave love without
strings. They gave brotherhood. //
Each of you helped make the Persian Gulf War an historic
war. Spouses, children, parents, friends -- all showing how, as
Woodrow Wilson said, "war is a dramatic symbol for a thousand
forms of duty." The enemies of peace could not match the
combined prayers of 250 million Americans -- and the collective
courage of half a million troops who knew that aggression must
not stand. / /
Today, we commemorate not only history but sacrifice and
bravery. / So let me close with a story of how a woman,
,
returned from naval duty off Saudi Arabia. As her two young
daughters leapt into her arms, crying and hugging, a reporter
asked if she'd do it again. // She replied, simply -- "I'd go
back tomorrow if my country called. " //
I don't know how anyone can fail to tremble -- in joy,
admiration and awe -- upon hearing her reply. Answering the call
4
made America free, and answering the call has kept us free.
Today, we hope that this time was the last time -- but stand
prepared to respond again should there ever be a next time. //
Our goal is real peace -- the triumph of freedom, not merely the
absence of war. Our means is the courage, and character, of a
people called Americans. //
Let us remember the heroes of the Gulf -- those with us;
those we honor today -- SO that mankind will say: Just as they
honored America, we honored them with the lives we lead. // God
bless them / let their glory pass from one generation to the next
// and God bless our nation -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
4204
Document No. 243341
91 JUN 6 WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 6/5/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: THURSDAY 6/6/91 10:00 a.m
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING, ARLINGTON CEMETERY
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than 10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 6, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
June 7, 1991
RESPONSE:
TO: TONY SNOW
The NSC staff has reviewed and recommends the attached minor
changes to the draft speech.
R
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Brent Scowcroft
Ext. 2702
CC: Phillip Brady
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN-5 AM II: 28
June 4, 1991
Draft Two
STORM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991
10 A.M.
We meet today to remember the men and women who gave their
lives to their nation / and to the ideal of freedom / during
Operation Desert Storm.
All across our land, people celebrate our victory in that
war. Troops march, crowds cheer, streamers fill the air. Later
today, crowds will gather to watch troops march triumphantly from
Washington to the Pentagon. I'm sure they' 11 raise a happy
ruckus, that they'll embrace our troops and their cause.
But war also deserves quiet, sober remembrance. Here in
this quiet place we can offer humble homage to young people who
last summer admire answered their country's call -- and never returned.
I [love] this place: this hill sloping gently toward the
Potomac; the grasses and trees. Here you find no hype. Here you
hear no shouts and screams. Here, trees rustle and birds sing.
Face
Here, we can pause to remember, to sigh, to fight the untreatable
ache of loss, to whisper silently to those who cannot whisper
back.
We confront mysteries here. We celebrate the fact that each
person we commemorate today gave up life for principles larger
than each of us -- principles that at the same time form the
muscle and sinew of our national [heart] being
"rinew
work
2
Dwight Eisenhower once spoke of the "most ennobling virtues
of man -- faith, courage, fortitude, sacrifice." He knew that
America grew out of brave men's dreams of a commonwealth of
freedom -- of virtue. He knew that America endures because it
dares to defend that dream. //
That dream links the fields of Flanders and the [rugged]
cliffs of the Normandy. Korea's snow-covered uplands and the rice
paddies of Mekong. // It has lived in the last year on barren
desert flats; on sea-tossed ships; in jets streaking miles above
hostile terrain. It lives because we dared risk our most
precious asset: our sons and daughters / our brothers and sisters
/ our husbands and wives -- the finest soldiers, sailors, airmen
and marines that any nation every has known. //
The heroes of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm came
from the tenements of New York / the towns of Mississippi / the
of America's plains
plains of America's giant, sprawling checkerboard, They were
rural and urban, native-born and foreign-born, black and white
and red and brown, privileged and the poor. //
Far away, they battled the inner enemy of fear and won.
Then they set an embattled nation free. They went to the Gulf
not because it was the expedient way but because it was the right
American way. / They showed how the human will could outlast
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bayonets and barbed wire. / They reminded us that America Is role
for the U.S.
as the custodian of liberty is not just our duty but our destiny 7
// And through their sacrifice, they renewed our faith in
ourselves. //
3
From the time Operation Desert Shield began, a sacred bond
grew between Americans here at home and those serving in the
Gulf. / Think of the yellow ribbons that joined this Nation's
hands, and souls. Think of how the American Family has perhaps
never been more united. // Every day we knelt on our knees for
the heroes of the Gulf -- and for the unsung heroes -- the
military families. There have been no parades for them, nor will
they be immortalized in statues and monuments. Yet in little
kindnesses and deeds, they reached out to each other -- neighbor
to neighbor; often, stranger to stranger. They gave love without
strings. They gave brotherhood. //
Each of you helped make the Persian Gulf War an historic
war. Spouses, children, parents, friends -- all showing how, as
Woodrow Wilson said, "war is a dramatic symbol for a thousand
forms of duty." The enemies of peace could not match the
combined prayers of 250 million Americans -- and the collective
courage of half a million troops who knew that aggression must
not stand. //
Today, we commemorate not only history but sacrifice and
bravery. / So let me close with a story of how a woman,
,
returned from naval duty off Saudi Arabia. As her two young
daughters leapt into her arms, crying and hugging, a reporter
asked if she'd do it again. // She replied, simply -- "I'd go
back tomorrow if my country called. " //
I don't know how anyone can fail to tremble -- in joy,
admiration and awe -- upon hearing her reply. Answering the call
4
made America free, and answering the call has kept us free.
Today, we hope that this time was the last time -- but stand
prepared to respond again should there ever be a next time. //
Freedom
Our goal is real peace the triumph of freedom, not / merely the
absence of war. Our means is the courage, and character, of a
people called Americans. / /
Let us remember the heroes of the Gulf -- those with us;
those we honor today -- so that mankind will say: Just as they
honored America, we honored them with the lives we lead. // God
bless them / let their glory pass from one generation to the next
// and God bless our nation -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
WREATH-LAYING \ ARLINGTON CEMETERY
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991 \ 10 A.M.
WE MEET TODAY TO REMEMBER THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO
GAVE THEIR LIVES TO THEIR NATION / AND TO THE IDEAL OF
FREEDOM / DURING OPERATION DESERT STORM.
ALL ACROSS OUR LAND, PEOPLE CELEBRATE OUR VICTORY
IN THAT WAR. TROOPS MARCH, CROWDS CHEER, STREAMERS
FILL THE AIR. LATER TODAY, CROWDS WILL GATHER TO WATCH
TROOPS MARCH TRIUMPHANTLY FROM WASHINGTON TO THE
PENTAGON.
- 2 -
I'M SURE THEY'LL RAISE A HAPPY RUCKUS, THAT THEY'LL
EMBRACE OUR TROOPS AND THEIR CAUSE.
BUT WAR ALSO DESERVES QUIET, SOBER REMEMBRANCE.
HERE IN THIS QUIET PLACE WE CAN OFFER HUMBLE HOMAGE To
YOUNG PEOPLE WHO LAST SUMMER ANSWERED THEIR COUNTRY'S
CALL -- AND NEVER RETURNED.
I ADMIRE THIS PLACE: THIS HILL SLOPING GENTLY
TOWARD THE PoToMac; THE GRASSES AND TREES. HERE YOU
FIND NO HYPE. HERE YOU HEAR NO SHOUTS AND SCREAMS.
- 3 -
HERE, TREES RUSTLE AND BIRDS SING. HERE, WE CAN PAUSE
TO REMEMBER, TO SIGH, TO FIGHT THE UNTREATABLE ACHE OF
LOSS, TO WHISPER SILENTLY TO THOSE WHO CANNOT WHISPER
BACK.
WE CONFRONT MYSTERIES HERE. WE CELEBRATE THE FACT
THAT EACH PERSON WE COMMEMORATE TODAY GAVE UP LIFE FOR
PRINCIPLES LARGER THAN EACH OF US -- PRINCIPLES THAT AT
THE SAME TIME FORM THE MUSCLE AND SINEW OF OUR NATIONAL
HEART.
- 4 -
DWIGHT EISENHOWER ONCE SPOKE OF THE "MOST ENNOBLING
VIRTUES OF MAN -- FAITH, COURAGE, FORTITUDE,
SACRIFICE." HE KNEW THAT AMERICA GREW OUT OF BRAVE
MEN'S DREAMS OF A COMMONWEALTH OF FREEDOM -- OF VIRTUE.
HE KNEW THAT AMERICA ENDURES BECAUSE IT DARES TO DEFEND
THAT DREAM. //
THAT DREAM LINKS THE FIELDS OF FLANDERS AND THE
RUGGED CLIFFS OF NORMANDY. KOREA'S SNOW-COVERED
UPLANDS AND THE RICE PADDIES OF MEKONG. //
- 5 -
IT HAS LIVED IN THE LAST YEAR ON BARREN DESERT FLATS;
ON SEA-TOSSED SHIPS; IN JETS STREAKING MILES ABOVE
HOSTILE TERRAIN. IT LIVES BECAUSE WE DARED RISK OUR
MOST PRECIOUS ASSET: OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS / OUR
BROTHERS AND SISTERS / OUR HUSBANDS AND WIVES -- THE
FINEST SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN, MARINES, COAST
GUARDSMEN, AND MERCHANT MARINES THAT ANY NATION EVERY
HAS KNOWN. //
- 6 -
THE HEROES OF OPERATION DESERT SHIELD AND DESERT
STORM CAME FROM THE TENEMENTS OF NEW YORK / THE TOWNS
OF MISSISSIPPI / THE PLAINS OF AMERICA'S GIANT,
SPRAWLING CHECKERBOARD. THEY WERE RURAL AND URBAN,
NATIVE-BORN AND FOREIGN-BORN, BLACK AND WHITE AND RED
AND BROWN, PRIVILEGED AND THE POOR. //
FAR AWAY, THEY BATTLED THE INNER ENEMY OF FEAR AND
WON. THEN THEY SET AN EMBATTLED NATION FREE.
- 7 -
THEY WENT TO THE GULF NOT BECAUSE IT WAS THE EXPEDIENT
WAY BUT BECAUSE IT WAS THE AMERICAN WAY. / THEY SHOWED
HOW THE HUMAN WILL COULD OUTLAST BAYONETS AND BARBED
WIRE. // AND THROUGH THEIR SACRIFICE, THEY RENEWED OUR
FAITH IN OURSELVES. //
FROM THE TIME OPERATION DESERT SHIELD BEGAN, A
SACRED BOND GREW BETWEEN AMERICANS HERE AT HOME AND
THOSE SERVING IN THE GULF. / THINK OF THE YELLOW
RIBBONS THAT JOINED THIS NATION'S HANDS, AND SOULS.
- 8 -
THINK OF HOW THE AMERICAN FAMILY HAS PERHAPS NEVER BEEN
MORE UNITED. // WE PRAYED -- oH, HOW WE PRAYED -- FOR
THE HEROES OF THE GULF -- AND FOR THE UNSUNG HEROES --
THE MILITARY FAMILIES. THERE HAVE BEEN NO PARADES FOR
THEM, NOR WILL THEY BE IMMORTALIZED IN STATUES AND
MONUMENTS. YET IN LITTLE KINDNESSES AND DEEDS, THEY
REACHED OUT TO EACH OTHER -- NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR;
OFTEN, STRANGER TO STRANGER. THEY GAVE LOVE WITHOUT
STRINGS. THEY GAVE BROTHERHOOD. //
- 9 -
EACH OF YOU HELPED MAKE THE PERSIAN GULF WAR AN
HISTORIC WAR. SPOUSES, CHILDREN, PARENTS, FRIENDS --
ALL SHOWING HOW, AS WOODROW WILSON SAID, WAR IS A
"DRAMATIC SYMBOL OF A THOUSAND FORMS OF DUTY." THE
ENEMIES OF PEACE COULD NOT MATCH THE COMBINED PRAYERS
OF 250 MILLION AMERICANS -- AND THE COLLECTIVE COURAGE
OF HALF A MILLION TROOPS WHO KNEW THAT AGGRESSION MUST
NOT STAND. //
- 10 -
TODAY, WE COMMEMORATE NOT ONLY HISTORY BUT
SACRIFICE AND BRAVERY. / So LET ME CLOSE WITH A STORY
OF HOW A WOMAN, DEBBY WYATT, RETURNED FROM NAVAL DUTY
IN THE GULF. As HER THREE YOUNG CHILDREN LEAPT INTO
HER ARMS, CRYING AND HUGGING, A REPORTER ASKED IF SHE'D
DO IT AGAIN. // SHE REPLIED, SIMPLY -- I'D GO BACK
TOMORROW IF MY COUNTRY CALLED. //
I DON'T KNOW HOW ANYONE CAN FAIL TO TREMBLE -- IN
JOY, ADMIRATION AND AWE -- UPON HEARING HER REPLY.
- 11 -
ANSWERING THE CALL MADE AMERICA FREE, AND ANSWERING THE
CALL HAS KEPT US FREE. TODAY, WE HOPE THAT THIS TIME
WAS THE LAST TIME -- BUT STAND PREPARED To RESPOND
AGAIN SHOULD THERE EVER BE A NEXT TIME. // OUR GOAL IS
REAL PEACE -- THE TRIUMPH OF FREEDOM, NOT MERELY THE
ABSENCE OF WAR. OUR MEANS IS THE COURAGE, AND
CHARACTER, OF A PEOPLE CALLED AMERICANS./
- 12 -
LET US REMEMBER THE HEROES OF THE GULF -- THOSE
WITH US; THOSE WE HONOR TODAY -- so THAT MANKIND WILL
SAY: JUST AS THEY HONORED AMERICA, WE HONORED THEM
WITH THE LIVES WE LEAD. // GOD BLESS THEM / LET THEIR
GLORY PASS FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT // AND MAY
GOD BLESS OUR NATION -- THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
#
#
#
WREATH-LAYING \ ARLINGTON CEMETERY
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991 \ 10 A.M.
WE MEET TODAY TO REMEMBER THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO
GAVE THEIR LIVES TO THEIR NATION / AND TO THE IDEAL OF
FREEDOM / DURING OPERATION DESERT STORM.
ALL ACROSS OUR LAND, PEOPLE CELEBRATE OUR VICTORY
IN THAT WAR. THERE'S A NEW AND WONDERFUL FEELING IN
AMERICA. TROOPS MARCH, CROWDS CHEER, STREAMERS FILL
THE AIR. LATER TODAY, CROWDS WILL GATHER TO WATCH
TROOPS MARCH TRIUMPHANTLY FROM WASHINGTON TO THE
PENTAGON IN A GRAND PARADE.
R
"
- 2 -
BUT WAR ALSO DESERVES QUIET, SOBER REMEMBRANCE.
HERE IN THIS QUIET PLACE WE CAN OFFER HUMBLE HOMAGE TO
YOUNG PEOPLE WHO LAST SUMMER ANSWERED THEIR COUNTRY'S
CALL -- AND NEVER RETURNED.
I ADMIRE THIS PLACE: THIS HILL SLOPING GENTLY
TOWARD THE PoToMac; THE GRASSES AND TREES. HERE YOU
FIND NO HYPE. HERE YOU HEAR NO SHOUTS AND SCREAMS.
- 3 -
HERE, TREES RUSTLE AND BIRDS SING. HERE, WE CAN PAUSE
TO REMEMBER, TO SIGH, TO FIGHT THE UNTREATABLE ACHE OF
LOSS, TO WHISPER SILENTLY TO THOSE WHO CANNOT WHISPER
BACK.
WE CONFRONT MYSTERIES HERE. WE CELEBRATE THE FACT
THAT EACH PERSON WE COMMEMORATE TODAY GAVE UP LIFE FOR
PRINCIPLES LARGER THAN EACH OF US -- PRINCIPLES THAT AT
THE SAME TIME FORM THE MUSCLE AND SINEW OF OUR NATIONAL
HEART.
- 4 -
DWIGHT EISENHOWER ONCE SPOKE OF THE "MOST ENNOBLING
VIRTUES OF MAN -- FAITH, COURAGE, FORTITUDE,
SACRIFICE." HE KNEW THAT AMERICA GREW OUT OF BRAVE
MEN'S DREAMS OF A COMMONWEALTH OF FREEDOM -- OF VIRTUE.
HE KNEW THAT AMERICA ENDURES BECAUSE IT DARES TO DEFEND
THAT DREAM. //
THAT DREAM LINKS THE FIELDS OF FLANDERS AND THE
RUGGED CLIFFS OF NORMANDY. KOREA'S SNOW-COVERED
UPLANDS AND THE RICE PADDIES OF MEKONG. //
- 5 -
IT HAS LIVED IN THE LAST YEAR ON BARREN DESERT FLATS;
ON SEA-TOSSED SHIPS; IN JETS STREAKING MILES ABOVE
HOSTILE TERRAIN. IT LIVES BECAUSE WE DARED RISK OUR
MOST PRECIOUS ASSET: OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS / OUR
BROTHERS AND SISTERS / OUR HUSBANDS AND WIVES -- THE
FINEST SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN, MARINES, COAST
GUARDSMEN, AND MERCHANT MARINES THAT ANY NATION EVERY
HAS KNOWN. //
- 6 -
THE HEROES OF OPERATION DESERT SHIELD AND DESERT
STORM CAME FROM THE TENEMENTS OF NEW YORK / THE TOWNS
OF MISSISSIPPI / THE PLAINS OF AMERICA'S GIANT,
SPRAWLING CHECKERBOARD. THEY WERE RURAL AND URBAN,
NATIVE-BORN AND FOREIGN-BORN, BLACK AND WHITE AND RED
AND BROWN, PRIVILEGED AND THE POOR. // THEY WERE OUR
VERY BEST.
FAR AWAY, THEY BATTLED THE INNER ENEMY OF FEAR AND
WON. THEN THEY SET AN EMBATTLED NATION FREE.
- 7 -
THEY WENT TO THE GULF NOT BECAUSE IT WAS THE EXPEDIENT
WAY BUT BECAUSE IT WAS THE AMERICAN WAY. / THROUGH
THEIR SACRIFICE, THEY RENEWED OUR FAITH IN OURSELVES. //
FROM THE TIME OPERATION DESERT SHIELD BEGAN, A
SACRED BOND GREW BETWEEN AMERICANS HERE AT HOME AND
THOSE SERVING IN THE GULF. / THINK OF THE YELLOW
RIBBONS THAT JOINED THIS NATION'S HANDS, AND SOULS.
- 8 -
THINK OF HOW THE AMERICAN FAMILY HAS PERHAPS NEVER BEEN
MORE UNITED. // WE PRAYED -- oH, HOW WE PRAYED -- FOR
THE HEROES OF THE GULF -- AND FOR THE UNSUNG HEROES --
THE MILITARY FAMILIES. THERE HAVE BEEN NO PARADES FOR
THEM, NOR WILL THEY BE IMMORTALIZED IN STATUES AND
MONUMENTS. YET IN LITTLE KINDNESSES AND DEEDS, THEY
REACHED OUT TO EACH OTHER -- NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR;
OFTEN, STRANGER TO STRANGER. THEY GAVE LOVE WITHOUT
STRINGS. THEY GAVE BROTHERHOOD. //
- 9 -
EACH OF YOU HELPED MAKE THE PERSIAN GULF WAR AN
HISTORIC WAR. SPOUSES, CHILDREN, PARENTS, FRIENDS --
ALL SHOWING HOW, AS WOODROW WILSON SAID, WAR IS A
"DRAMATIC SYMBOL OF A THOUSAND FORMS OF DUTY." THE
ENEMIES OF PEACE, THE BRUTAL AGGRESSORS, COULD NOT
MATCH THE COMBINED PRAYERS OF 250 MILLION AMERICANS --
AND THE COLLECTIVE COURAGE OF HALF A MILLION TROOPS WHO
KNEW THAT AGGRESSION MUST NOT STAND. //
- 10 -
TODAY, WE COMMEMORATE NOT ONLY HISTORY BUT
SACRIFICE AND BRAVERY. / So LET ME CLOSE WITH A STORY
OF HOW A WOMAN, DEBBY WYATT, RETURNED FROM NAVAL DUTY
IN THE GULF. As HER THREE YOUNG CHILDREN LEAPT INTO
HER ARMS, CRYING AND HUGGING, A REPORTER ASKED IF SHE'D
DO IT AGAIN. // SHE REPLIED, SIMPLY -- I'D GO BACK
TOMORROW IF MY COUNTRY CALLED. //
I DON'T KNOW HOW ANYONE CAN FAIL To TREMBLE -- IN
JOY, ADMIRATION AND AWE -- UPON HEARING HER REPLY.
- 11 -
ANSWERING THE CALL MADE AMERICA FREE, AND ANSWERING THE
CALL HAS KEPT US FREE. TODAY, WE HOPE THAT THIS TIME
WAS THE LAST TIME -- BUT STAND PREPARED TO RESPOND
AGAIN SHOULD THERE EVER BE A NEXT TIME. // OUR GOAL IS
REAL PEACE -- THE TRIUMPH OF FREEDOM, NOT MERELY THE
ABSENCE OF WAR. OUR MEANS IS THE COURAGE, AND
CHARACTER, OF A PEOPLE CALLED AMERICANS. //
- 12 -
LET US REMEMBER THE HEROES OF THE GULF -- THOSE
WITH US; THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES -- so THAT MANKIND
WILL SAY: JUST AS THEY HONORED AMERICA, WE HONORED
THEM WITH THE LIVES WE LEAD. // GOD BLESS THEM / AND
MAY GOD BLESS OUR NATION.
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THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
4/5/91
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN-5 AMII: 28
June 4, 1991
Draft Two
STORM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991
10 A.M.
We meet today to remember the men and women who gave their
lives to their nation / and to the ideal of freedom /
There's a during new wonderful
Operation Desert Storm.
feeling in America.
All across our land, people celebrate our victory in that
war. Troops march, crowds cheer, streamers fill the air.
Later
today, crowds will gather to watch troops march triumphantly from
Washington to the Pentagon.
they
IN A GRAND PARADE
11
and their cause.
But war also deserves quiet, sober remembrance. Here in
this quiet place we can offer humble homage to young people who
last summer answered their country's call -- and never returned.
I love this place: this hill sloping gently toward the
Potomac; the grasses and trees. Here you find no hype. Here you
hear no shouts and screams. Here, trees rustle and birds sing.
Here, we can pause to remember, to sigh, to fight the untreatable
ache of loss, to whisper silently to those who cannot whisper
back.
We confront mysteries here. We celebrate the fact that each
person we commemorate today gave up life for principles larger
than each of us -- principles that at the same time form the
muscle and sinew of our national heart.
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN -5 AM II: 28
June 4, 1991
Draft Two
STORM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991
10 A.M.
We meet today to remember the men and women who gave their
lives to their nation / and to the ideal of freedom / during
Operation Desert Storm.
All across our land, people celebrate our victory in that
war. Troops march, crowds cheer, streamers fill the air.
Л
Later
today, crowds will gather to watch troops march triumphantly from
Washington to the Pentagon.
they
PY
11
and their cause.
But war also deserves quiet, sober remembrance. Here in
this quiet place we can offer humble homage to young people who
last summer answered their country's call -- and never returned.
I love this place: this hill sloping gently toward the
Potomac; the grasses and trees. Here you find no hype. Here you
hear no shouts and screams. Here, trees rustle and birds sing.
Here, we can pause to remember, to sigh, to fight the untreatable
ache of loss, to whisper silently to those who cannot whisper
back.
We confront mysteries here. We celebrate the fact that each
person we commemorate today gave up life for principles larger
than each of us -- principles that at the same time form the
muscle and sinew of our national heart.
2
Dwight Eisenhower once spoke of the "most ennobling virtues
of man -- faith, courage, fortitude, sacrifice." He knew that
America grew out of brave men's dreams of a commonwealth of
freedom -- of virtue. He knew that America endures because it
dares to defend that dream. //
That dream links the fields of Flanders and the rugged
cliffs of Normandy. Korea's snow-covered uplands and the rice
paddies of Mekong. // It has lived in the last year on barren
desert flats; on sea-tossed ships; in jets streaking miles above
hostile terrain. It lives because we dared risk our most
precious asset: our sons and daughters / our brothers and sisters
/ our husbands and wives -- the finest soldiers, sailors, airmen
and marines that any nation every has known. //
The heroes of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm came
from the tenements of New York / the towns of Mississippi / the
plains of America's giant, sprawling checkerboard. They were
rural and urban, native-born and foreign-born, black and white
and red and brown privileged and the poor. //
They were our very best
Far away, they battled the inner enemy of fear and won.
Then they set an embattled nation free. They went to the Gulf
not because it was the expedient way but because it was the
American way. /
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that
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or liberty is not
//
hrough their sacrifice, they renewed our faith in
ourselves. //
we prayed. oh how or prayid.
3
prayed,
From the time Operation Desert Shield began, a sacred bond
grew between Americans here at home and those serving in the
Gulf. / Think of the yellow ribbons that joined this Nation's
hands, and souls. Think of how the American Family has perhaps
never been more united.
//
for
the heroes of the Gulf -- and for the unsung heroes -- the
military families. There have been no parades for them, nor will
they be immortalized in statues and monuments. Yet in little
kindnesses and deeds, they reached out to each other -- neighbor
to neighbor; often, stranger to stranger. They gave love without
strings. They gave brotherhood. //
Each of you helped make the Persian Gulf War an historic
war. Spouses, children, parents, friends -- all showing how, as
Woodrow Wilson said, "war is a dramatic symbol for a thousand
forms of duty." The enemies of peace could not match the
the brutal
combined prayers of 250 million Americans -- and the collective
aggression
courage of half a million troops who knew that aggression must
not stand. //
Today, we commemorate not only history but sacrifice and
bravery. / So let me close with a story of how a woman,
,
returned from naval duty off Saudi Arabia. As her two young
daughters leapt into her arms, crying and hugging, a reporter
asked if she'd do it again. // She replied, simply -- "I'd go
back tomorrow if my country called. " //
I don't know how anyone can fail to tremble -- in joy,
admiration and awe -- upon hearing her reply. Answering the call
4
made America free, and answering the call has kept us free.
Today, we hope that this time was the last time -- but stand
prepared to respond again should there ever be a next time. //
Our goal is real peace -- the triumph of freedom, not merely the
absence of war. Our means is the courage, and character, of a
people called Americans. //
Let us remember the heroes of the Gulf -- those with us;
those
ay
-- so that mankind will say: Just as they
honored America, we honored them with the lives we lead. // God
bless them /
next
// and God bless our nation
:
America.
who gave their lives
#
#
#
#
Document No. 243341
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 6/5/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: THURSDAY 6/6/91 10:00 a.m
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING, ARLINGTON CEMETERY
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than 10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 6, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
All comments, marks
Nollywilliamson
PHILLIP D. BRADY
6-6-91
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN-5 AM II: 28
June 4, 1991
Draft Two
STORM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991
10 A.M.
We meet today to remember the men and women who gave their
lives to their nation / and to the ideal of freedom / during
Operation Desert Storm.
All across our land, people celebrate our victory in that
war. Troops march, crowds cheer, streamers fill the air. Later
today, crowds will gather to watch troops march triumphantly from
Washington to the Pentagon. I'm sure they'll raise a happy
ruckus, that they'll embrace our troops and their cause.
But war also deserves quiet, sober remembrance. Here in
this quiet place we can offer humble homage to young people who
last summer answered their country's call -- and never returned.
I love this place: this hill sloping gently toward the
Potomac; the grasses and trees. Here you find no hype. Here you
hear no shouts and screams. Here, trees rustle and birds sing.
Here, we can pause to remember, to sigh, to fight the untreatable
ache of loss, to whisper silently to those who cannot whisper
back.
We confront mysteries here. We celebrate the fact that each
person we commemorate today gave up life for principles larger
than each of us -- principles that at the same time form the
muscle and sinew of our national heart.
2
Dwight Eisenhower once spoke of the "most ennobling virtues
of man -- faith, courage, fortitude, sacrifice." He knew that
America grew out of brave men's dreams of a commonwealth of
freedom -- of virtue. He knew that America endures because it
dares to defend that dream. //
That dream links the fields of Flanders and the rugged
cliffs of Normandy. Korea's snow-covered uplands and the rice
paddies of Mekong. // It has lived in the last year on barren
desert flats; on sea-tossed ships; in jets streaking miles above
hostile terrain. It lives because we dared risk our most
precious asset: our sons and daughters / our brothers and sisters
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grew between Americans here at home and those serving in the
Gulf. / Think of the yellow ribbons that joined this Nation's
hands, and souls. Think of how the American Family has perhaps
never been more united. // Every day we knelt on our knees for
the heroes of the Gulf -- and for the unsung heroes -- the
military families. There have been no parades for them, nor will
they be immortalized in statues and monuments. Yet in little
kindnesses and deeds, they reached out to each other -- neighbor
to neighbor; often, stranger to stranger. They gave love without
strings. They gave brotherhood. //
Each of you helped make the Persian Gulf War an historic
war. Spouses, children, parents, friends -- all showing how, as
Woodrow Wilson said, "war is a dramatic symbol for a thousand
forms of duty." The enemies of peace could not match the
combined prayers of 250 million Americans -- and the collective
courage of half a million troops who knew that aggression must
not stand. / /
Today, we commemorate not only history but sacrifice and
bravery. / So let me close with a story of how a woman,
,
returned from naval duty off Saudi Arabia. As her two young
daughters leapt into her arms, crying and hugging, a reporter
asked if she'd do it again. // She replied, simply -- "I'd go
back tomorrow if my country called. " //
I don't know how anyone can fail to tremble -- in joy,
admiration and awe -- upon hearing her reply. Answering the call
4
made America free, and answering the call has kept us free.
Today, we hope that this time was the last time -- but stand
prepared to respond again should there ever be a next time. //
Our goal is real peace -- the triumph of freedom, not merely the
absence of war. Our means is the courage, and character, of a
people called Americans. //
Let us remember the heroes of the Gulf -- those with us;
those we honor today -- so that mankind will say: Just as they
honored America, we honored them with the lives we lead. // God
bless them / let their glory pass from one generation to the next
// and God bless our nation -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
Document No. 243341
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
A10: 33
DATE: 6/5/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: THURSDAY 6/6/91 10:00 a.m
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING, ARLINGTON CEMETERY
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than 10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 6, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
no comment
V
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN-5 AMII: 28
June 4, 1991
Draft Two
STORM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991
10 A.M.
We meet today to remember the men and women who gave their
lives to their nation / and to the ideal of freedom / during
Operation Desert Storm.
All across our land, people celebrate our victory in that
war. Troops march, crowds cheer, streamers fill the air. Later
today, crowds will gather to watch troops march triumphantly from
Washington to the Pentagon. I'm sure they'll raise a happy
ruckus, that they'll embrace our troops and their cause.
But war also deserves quiet, sober remembrance. Here in
this quiet place we can offer humble homage to young people who
last summer answered their country's call -- and never returned.
I love this place: this hill sloping gently toward the
Potomac; the grasses and trees. Here you find no hype. Here you
hear no shouts and screams. Here, trees rustle and birds sing.
Here, we can pause to remember, to sigh, to fight the untreatable
ache of loss, to whisper silently to those who cannot whisper
back.
We confront mysteries here. We celebrate the fact that each
person we commemorate today gave up life for principles larger
than each of us -- principles that at the same time form the
muscle and sinew of our national heart.
2
Dwight Eisenhower once spoke of the "most ennobling virtues
of man -- faith, courage, fortitude, sacrifice." He knew that
America grew out of brave men's dreams of a commonwealth of
freedom -- of virtue. He knew that America endures because it
dares to defend that dream. //
That dream links the fields of Flanders and the rugged
cliffs of Normandy. Korea's snow-covered uplands and the rice
paddies of Mekong. // It has lived in the last year on barren
desert flats; on sea-tossed ships; in jets streaking miles above
hostile terrain. It lives because we dared risk our most
precious asset: our sons and daughters / our brothers and sisters
/ our husbands and wives -- the finest soldiers, sailors, airmen
and
marines that any nation every has known. //
The heroes of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm came
from the tenements of New York / the towns of Mississippi / the
plains of America's giant, sprawling checkerboard. They were
rural and urban, native-born and foreign-born, black and white
and red and brown, privileged and the poor. //
Far away, they battled the inner enemy of fear and won.
Then they set an embattled nation free. They went to the Gulf
not because it was the expedient way but because it was the
American way. / They showed how the human will could outlast
bayonets and barbed wire. / They reminded us that America's role
as the custodian of liberty is not just our duty but our destiny.
// And through their sacrifice, they renewed our faith in
ourselves. //
3
From the time Operation Desert Shield began, a sacred bond
grew between Americans here at home and those serving in the
Gulf. / Think of the yellow ribbons that joined this Nation's
hands, and souls. Think of how the American Family has perhaps
never been more united. // Every day we knelt on our knees for
the heroes of the Gulf -- and for the unsung heroes -- the
military families. There have been no parades for them, nor will
they be immortalized in statues and monuments. Yet in little
kindnesses and deeds, they reached out to each other -- neighbor
to neighbor; often, stranger to stranger. They gave love without
strings. They gave brotherhood. //
Each of you helped make the Persian Gulf War an historic
war. Spouses, children, parents, friends -- all showing how, as
Woodrow Wilson said, "war is a dramatic symbol for a thousand
forms of duty." The enemies of peace could not match the
combined prayers of 250 million Americans -- and the collective
courage of half a million troops who knew that aggression must
not stand. //
Today, we commemorate not only history but sacrifice and
bravery. / So let me close with a story of how a woman,
,
returned from naval duty off Saudi Arabia. As her two young
daughters leapt into her arms, crying and hugging, a reporter
asked if she'd do it again. // She replied, simply -- "I'd go
back tomorrow if my country called. " //
I don't know how anyone can fail to tremble -- in joy,
admiration and awe -- upon hearing her reply. Answering the call
4
made America free, and answering the call has kept us free.
Today, we hope that this time was the last time -- but stand
prepared to respond again should there ever be a next time. //
Our goal is real peace -- the triumph of freedom, not merely the
absence of war. Our means is the courage, and character, of a
people called Americans. //
Let us remember the heroes of the Gulf -- those with us;
those we honor today -- so that mankind will say: Just as they
honored America, we honored them with the lives we lead. // God
bless them / let their glory pass from one generation to the next
// and God bless our nation -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
91 JUN 6 All: 17
June 6, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR TONY SNOW
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR
COMMUNICATIONS AND DIRECTOR OF SPEECHWRITING
FROM:
LEE S. LIBERMAN iss
ASSOCIATE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Wreath Laying Ceremony
Counsel's Office has no legal objection to the above-captioned
draft speech.
Document No. 2433u/
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 6/5/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: THURSDAY 6/6/91 10:00 a.m
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING, ARLINGTON CEMETERY
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than 10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 6, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
U
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN -5 AMII: 28
June 4, 1991
Draft Two
STORM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991
10 A.M.
We meet today to remember the men and women who gave their
lives to their nation / and to the ideal of freedom / during
Operation Desert Storm.
All across our land, people celebrate our victory in that
war. Troops march, crowds cheer, streamers fill the air. Later
today, crowds will gather to watch troops march triumphantly from
Washington to the Pentagon. I'm sure they'll raise a happy
ruckus, that they'll embrace our troops and their cause.
But war also deserves quiet, sober remembrance. Here in
this quiet place we can offer humble homage to young people who
last summer answered their country's call -- and never returned.
I love this place: this hill sloping gently toward the
Potomac; the grasses and trees. Here you find no hype. Here you
hear no shouts and screams. Here, trees rustle and birds sing.
Here, we can pause to remember, to sigh, to fight the untreatable
ache of loss, to whisper silently to those who cannot whisper
back.
We confront mysteries here. We celebrate the fact that each
person we commemorate today gave up life for principles larger
than each of us -- principles that at the same time form the
muscle and sinew of our national heart.
2
Dwight Eisenhower once spoke of the "most ennobling virtues
of man -- faith, courage, fortitude, sacrifice." He knew that
America grew out of brave men's dreams of a commonwealth of
freedom -- of virtue. He knew that America endures because it
dares to defend that dream. //
That dream links the fields of Flanders and the rugged
cliffs of Normandy. Korea's snow-covered uplands and the rice
paddies of Mekong. // It has lived in the last year on barren
desert flats; on sea-tossed ships; in jets streaking miles above
hostile terrain. It lives because we dared risk our most
precious asset: our sons and daughters / our brothers and sisters
/ our husbands and wives -- the finest soldiers, sailors, airmen
and marines that any nation every has known. //
The heroes of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm came
from the tenements of New York / the towns of Mississippi / the
plains of America's giant, sprawling checkerboard. They were
rural and urban, native-born and foreign-born, black and white
and red and brown, privileged and the poor. //
Far away, they battled the inner enemy of fear and won.
Then they set an embattled nation free. They went to the Gulf
not because it was the expedient way but because it was the
American way. / They showed how the human will could outlast
bayonets and barbed wire. / They reminded us that America's role
as the custodian of liberty is not just our duty but our destiny.
// And through their sacrifice, they renewed our faith in
ourselves. //
3
From the time Operation Desert Shield began, a sacred bond
grew between Americans here at home and those serving in the
Gulf. / Think of the yellow ribbons that joined this Nation's
hands, and souls. Think of how the American Family has perhaps
never been more united. // Every day we knelt on our knees for
the heroes of the Gulf -- and for the unsung heroes -- the
military families. There have been no parades for them, nor will
they be immortalized in statues and monuments. Yet in little
kindnesses and deeds, they reached out to each other -- neighbor
to neighbor; often, stranger to stranger. They gave love without
strings. They gave brotherhood. //
Each of you helped make the Persian Gulf War an historic
war. Spouses, children, parents, friends -- all showing how, as
Woodrow Wilson said, "war is a dramatic symbol for a thousand
forms of duty." The enemies of peace could not match the
combined prayers of 250 million Americans -- and the collective
courage of half a million troops who knew that aggression must
not stand. //
Today, we commemorate not only history but sacrifice and
bravery. / So let me close with a story of how a woman,
,
returned from naval duty off Saudi Arabia. As her two young
daughters leapt into her arms, crying and hugging, a reporter
asked if she'd do it again. // She replied, simply -- "I'd go
back tomorrow if my country called." / /
I don't know how anyone can fail to tremble -- in joy,
admiration and awe -- upon hearing her reply. Answering the call
4
made America free, and answering the call has kept us free.
Today, we hope that this time was the last time -- but stand
prepared to respond again should there ever be a next time. //
Our goal is real peace -- the triumph of freedom, not merely the
absence of war. Our means is the courage, and character, of a
people called Americans. //
Let us remember the heroes of the Gulf -- those with us;
those we honor today -- so that mankind will say: Just as they
honored America, we honored them with the lives we lead. // God
bless them / let their glory pass from one generation to the next
// and God bless our nation -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
91 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR TONY SNOW
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER RBP
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Wreath-Laying, Arlington
Cemetery
We have reviewed the attached presidential remarks and
have noted several suggested changes on the draft.
Please let us know if you have any questions or if we may
help in any other way.
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Document No. 243341
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 6/5/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: THURSDAY 6/6/91 10:00 a
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING, ARLINGTON CEMETERY
ACTION FYI
ACTION a FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than 10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 6, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN -5 AMII: 28
June 4, 1991
Draft Two
STORM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991
10 A.M.
We meet today to remember the men and women who gave their
lives to their nation / and to the ideal of freedom / during
Operation Desert Storm.
All across our land, people celebrate our victory in that
war. Troops march, crowds cheer, streamers fill the air. Later
today, crowds will gather to watch troops march triumphantly from
Washington to the Pentagon. I'm sure they'll raise a happy
23
ruckus that they'll embrace our troops and their cause.
But war also deserves quiet, sober remembrance. Here in
this quiet place we can offer humble homage to young people who
last summer answered their country's call -- and never returned.
I love this place: this hill sloping gently toward the
Potomac; the grasses and trees. Here you find no hype Here you
hear no shouts and screams. Here, trees rustle and birds sing.
Here, we can pause to remember, to sigh, to fight the untreatable
ache of loss, to whisper silently to those who cannot whisper
back.
We confront mysteries here. We celebrate the fact that each
person we commemorate today gave up life for principles larger
than each of us -- principles that at the same time form the
muscle and sinew of our national heart.
2
Dwight Eisenhower once spoke of the "most ennobling virtues
of man -- faith, courage, fortitude, sacrifice." He knew that
America grew out of brave men's dreams of a commonwealth of
freedom -- of virtue. He knew that America endures because it
dares to defend that dream. //
That dream links the fields of Flanders and the rugged
cliffs of Normandy. Korea's snow-covered uplands and the rice
paddies of Mekong. // It has lived in the last year on barren
desert flats; on sea-tossed ships; in jets streaking miles above
hostile terrain. It lives because we dared risk our most
precious asset: our sons and daughters / our brothers and sisters
/ our husbands and wives -- the finest soldiers, sailors, airmen
and marines that any nation every has known. //
The heroes of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm came
from the tenements of New York / the towns of Mississippi / the
plains of America's giant, sprawling checkerboard. They were
rural and urban, native-born and foreign-born, black and white
and red and brown [privileged and the poor //
Far away, they battled the inner enemy of fear and won.
Then they set an embattled nation free. They went to the Gulf
not because it was the expedient way but because it was the
American way. / They showed how the human will could outlast
bayonets and barbed wire. / They reminded us that America's role
as the custodian of liberty is not just our duty but our destiny.
// And through their sacrifice, they renewed our faith in
ourselves. //
3
From the time Operation Desert Shield began, a sacred bond
grew between Americans here at home and those serving in the
Gulf. / Think of the yellow ribbons that joined this Nation's
hands, and souls. Think of how the American Family has perhaps
never been more united. // Every day we knelt on our knees for
the heroes of the Gulf --- and for the unsung heroes -- the
military families. There have been no parades for them, nor will
they be immortalized in statues and monuments. Yet in little
kindnesses and deeds, they reached out to each other -- neighbor
to neighbor; often, stranger to stranger. They gave love without
strings. They gave brotherhood. //
Each of you helped make the Persian Gulf War an historic
war. Spouses, children, parents, friends -- all showing how, as
Woodrow Wilson said, "war is a dramatic symbol for a thousand
forms of duty. " The enemies of peace could not match the
combined prayers of 250 million Americans -- and the collective
courage of half a million troops who knew that aggression must
not stand. //
Today, we commemorate not only history but sacrifice and
bravery. / So let me close with a story of how a woman,
,
returned from naval duty off Saudi Arabia. As her two young
daughters leapt into her arms, crying and hugging, a reporter
asked if she'd do it again. // She replied, simply -- "I'd go
back tomorrow if my country called. " //
I don't know how anyone can fail to tremble -- in joy,
admiration and awe -- upon hearing her reply. Answering the call
4
made America free, and answering the call has kept us free.
Today, we hope that this time was the last time but stand
prepared to respond again should there ever be a next time //
Our goal is real peace -- the triumph of freedom, not merely the
absence of war. Our means is the courage, and character, of a
people called Americans. //
Let us remember the heroes of the Gulf those with us;
those we honor today -- so that mankind will say: Just as they
honored America, we honored them with the lives we lead. 11 God
bless them / let their glory pass from one generation to the next
11 and God bless our nation the United States of America.
Document No. 243341
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
91 JUN 6 A10: 11
DATE: 6/5/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: THURSDAY 6/6/91 10:00 a.n
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING, ARLINGTON CEMETERY
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than 10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 6, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
comments
RESPONSE:
V
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN -5 AM11: 28
June 4, 1991
Draft Two
STORM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991
10 A.M.
We meet today to remember the men and women who gave their
lives to their nation / and to the ideal of freedom / during
Operation Desert Storm.
All across our land, people celebrate our victory in that
war. Troops march, crowds cheer, streamers fill the air. Later
today, crowds will gather to watch troops march triumphantly from
Washington to the Pentagon. I'm sure they'll raise a happy
ruckus, that they'll embrace our troops and their cause.
But war also deserves quiet, sober remembrance. Here in
this quiet place we can offer humble homage to young people who
last summer answered their country's call -- and never returned.
I love this place: this hill sloping gently toward the
Potomac; the grasses and trees. Here you find no hype. Here you
hear no shouts and screams. Here, trees rustle and birds sing.
Here, we can pause to remember, to sigh, to fight the untreatable
ache of loss, to whisper silently to those who cannot whisper
back
We confront mysteries here. We celebrate the fact that each
person we commemorate today gave up life for principles larger
than each of us -- principles that at the same time form the
muscle and sinew of our national heart.
2
Dwight Eisenhower once spoke of the "most ennobling virtues
of man -- faith, courage, fortitude, sacrifice." He knew that
America grew out of brave men's dreams of a commonwealth of
freedom -- of virtue. He knew that America endures because it
dares to defend that dream. //
That dream links the fields of Flanders and the rugged
cliffs of Normandy. Korea's snow-covered uplands and the rice
paddies of Mekong. 11 It has lived in the last year on barren
desert flats; on sea-tossed ships; in jets streaking miles above
hostile terrain. It lives because we dared risk our most
precious asset: our sons and daughters / our brothers and sisters
/ our husbands and wives -- the finest soldiers, sailors, airmen
and marines that any nation every has known. //
The heroes of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm came
from the tenements of New York / the towns of Mississippi / the
plains of America's giant, sprawling checkerboard. They were
rural and urban, native-born and foreign-born, black and white
and red and brown, privileged and the poor. //
Far away, they battled the inner enemy of fear and won.
Then they set an embattled nation free. They went to the Gulf
not because it was the expedient way but because it was the
American way. / They showed how the human will could outlast
bayonets and barbed wire. / They reminded us that America's role
as the custodian of liberty is not just our duty but our destiny.
// And through their sacrifice, they renewed our faith in
ourselves. //
3
From the time Operation Desert Shield began, a sacred bond
grew between Americans here at home and those serving in the
Gulf. / Think of the yellow ribbons that joined this Nation's
hands, and souls. Think of how the American Family has perhaps
never been more united. // Every day we knelt on our knees for
the heroes of the Gulf -- and for the unsung heroes -- the
military families. There have been no parades for them, nor will
they be immortalized in statues and monuments. Yet in little
kindnesses and deeds, they reached out to each other -- neighbor
to neighbor; often, stranger to stranger. They gave love without
strings. They gave brotherhood. //
Each of you helped make the Persian Gulf War an historic
war. Spouses, children, parents, friends -- all showing how, as
Woodrow Wilson said, "war is a dramatic symbol for a thousand
forms of duty." The enemies of peace could not match the
combined prayers of 250 million Americans -- and the collective
courage of half a million troops who knew that aggression must
not stand. //
Today, we commemorate not only history but sacrifice and
bravery. / So let me close with a story of how a woman,
,
returned from naval duty off Saudi Arabia. As her two young
daughters leapt into her arms, crying and hugging, a reporter
asked if she'd do it again. // She replied, simply -- "I'd go
back tomorrow if my country called." //
I don't know how anyone can fail to tremble -- in joy,
admiration and awe -- upon hearing her reply. Answering the call
4
made America free, and answering the call has kept us free.
Today, we hope that this time was the last time -- but stand
prepared to respond again should there ever be a next time. 11
Our goal is real peace -- the triumph of freedom, not merely the
absence of war. Our means is the courage, and character, of a
people called Americans. //
Let us remember the heroes of the Gulf -- those with us;
those we honor today -- so that mankind will say: Just as they
honored America, we honored them with the lives we lead. // God
bless them / let their glory pass from one generation to the next
// and God bless our nation -- the United States of America.
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Document No. 243341
WHITE HOUSESSTAFFING MEMORANDUM
P9:
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DATE: 6/5/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: THURSDAY 6/6/91 10:00 a.m
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING, ARLINGTON CEMETERY
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
BRADY
CARD
TOWN
ROGICH
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122 x2930,
no later than 10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 6, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
He" loves' this place
RESPONSE:
of death? Really PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and
Staff
Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN-5 AM II: 28
June 4, 1991
Draft Two
STORM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WREATH-LAYING
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991
10 A.M.
We meet today to remember the men and women who gave their
lives to their nation / and to the ideal of freedom / during
Operation Desert Storm.
All across our land, people celebrate our victory in that
war. Troops march, crowds cheer, streamers fill the air. Later
today, crowds will gather to watch troops march triumphantly from
Washington to the Pentagon. I'm sure they'll raise a happy
ruckus, that they'll embrace our troops and their cause.
But war also deserves quiet, sober remembrance. Here in
this quiet place We-con-offer humble homage to young people who
last summer answered their country's call -- and never returned.
love this place: this hill sloping gently toward the
Potomac; the grasses and trees. Here you find no hype. Here you
hear no shouts and screams. Here, trees rustle and birds sing.
Here, we can pause to remember, to sigh, to fight the untreatable
ache of loss, to whisper silently to those who cannot whisper
back.
We confront mysteries here. We celebrate the fact that each
person we commemorate today gave up life for principles larger
than each of us -- principles that at the same time form the
muscle and sinew of our national heart.
2
Dwight Eisenhower once spoke of the "most ennobling virtues
of man -- faith, courage, fortitude, sacrifice." He knew that
America grew out of brave men's dreams of a commonwealth of
freedom -- of virtue. He knew that America endures because it
dares to defend that dream. //
That dream links the fields of Flanders and the rugged
cliffs of Normandy. Korea's snow-covered uplands and the rice
paddies of Mekong. // It has lived in the last year on barren
desert flats; on sea-tossed ships; in jets streaking miles above
hostile terrain. It lives because we dared risk our most
precious asset: our sons and daughters / our brothers and sisters
/ our husbands and wives -- the finest soldiers, sailors, airmen
and marines that any nation every has known. //
The heroes of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm came
from the tenements of New York / the towns of Mississippi / the
plains of America's giant, sprawling checkerboard. They were
rural and urban, native-born and foreign-born, black and white
and red and brown, privileged and the poor. //
Far away, they battled the inner enemy of fear and won.
Then they set an embattled nation free. They went to the Gulf
not because it was the expedient way but because it was the
American way. / They showed how the human will could outlast
bayonets and barbed wire. / They reminded us that America's role
as the custodian of liberty is not just our duty but our destiny.
// And through their sacrifice, they renewed our faith in
ourselves. //
3
From the time Operation Desert Shield began, a sacred bond
grew between Americans here at home and those serving in the
Gulf. / Think of the yellow ribbons that joined this Nation's
hands, and souls. Think of how the American Family has perhaps
never been more united. // Every day we knelt on our knees for
the heroes of the Gulf -- and for the unsung heroes -- the
military families. There have been no parades for them, nor will
they be immortalized in statues and monuments. Yet in little
kindnesses and deeds, they reached out to each other -- neighbor
to neighbor; often, stranger to stranger. They gave love without
strings. They gave brotherhood. //
Each of you helped make the Persian Gulf War an historic
war. Spouses, children, parents, friends -- all showing how, as
Woodrow Wilson said, "war is a dramatic symbol for a thousand
forms of duty." The enemies of peace could not match the
combined prayers of 250 million Americans -- and the collective
courage of half a million troops who knew that aggression must
not stand. //
Today, we commemorate not only history but sacrifice and
bravery. / So let me close with a story of how a woman,
,
returned from naval duty off Saudi Arabia. As her two young
daughters leapt into her arms, crying and hugging, a reporter
asked if she'd do it again. // She replied, simply -- "I'd go
back tomorrow if my country called. " //
I don't know how anyone can fail to tremble -- in joy,
admiration and awe -- upon hearing her reply. Answering the call
4
made America free, and answering the call has kept us free.
Today, we hope that this time was the last time -- but stand
prepared to respond again should there ever be a next time. //
Our goal is real peace -- the triumph of freedom, not merely the
absence of war. Our means is the courage, and character, of a
people called Americans. //
Let us remember the heroes of the Gulf -- those with us;
those we honor today -- so that mankind will say: Just as they
honored America, we honored them with the lives we lead. // God
bless them / let their glory pass from one generation to the next
// and God bless our nation -- the United States of America.
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