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Saturday, March 24, 1973, Statement Re Vietnam Veterans
- Parte de White House Staff Member and Office Files (Nixon Administration), President's Personal Files
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OCR Page 1 of 78THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
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Veterans Speech
3/23/73
As the day approaches when all our military forces will be
withdrawn from Vietnam and all of our POWs will have returned
home, it is appropriate that we turn our attention to the debt
we owe to those who served America in this long and difficult
war.
No group of American fighting men was ever called on to
demonstrate their bravery, their endurance or their love of
country under more trying circumstances than those gallant
Americans who served in Vietnam.
A few weeks ago, an inspiring voice summed up their
indomitable spirit. As Captain Jeremiah Denton, the first of
our returning prisoners of war, stepped off the plane and saluted
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