Fourth Draft, Speech of President Harry S. Truman at the 35th Division Reunion Memorial Service
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4th Draft
Fellow Americans:
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We have come together tonight to honor the memory of the men
of the 35th Division who died in the defense of their country and, in
honoring them, we pay tribute also to the nemory of all those who have
lost their lives in the wars in which our Nation has been engaged.
Men of the 35th Division have twice fulfilled the obligation
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of every American citizen to serve in the defense of his homeland. Over
300 years ago the first settlers in the North American colonies brought
Established
to this continent
a tradition of military training and service. Service
in the defense of the new colonies was, to them, an essential and unques
tioned duty of citizenship. We owe our existence as a Nation to the
tradition of service by our citizens, for it was an army of citizen
soldiers which George Washington led to victory in the American Revolu-
tion. At the end of that war, the Congress asked General Tashington
to give his views on what the military policy of the new nation should
be. Washington replied:
"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis
of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection
of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his
property, but even of his personal services to the defense
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