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It's important we remember
the men of World War Two.
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It's thanks to them we live
in this free world today.
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They deserve applause.
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In all honesty they deserve
medals and honours and parades,
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but they also deserve our thanks
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for their sacrifices
when they were virile young men.
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It's important to remember
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that there were people willing
to die for their country.
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They were willing
to give their lives.
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We owe a lot to people
that are easy to forget,
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trying to satisfy our own
contemporary lives.
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If it weren't for the veterans,
we wouldn't have those lives.
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Everybody who complains
about going to work
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at eight o'clock
in the morning somewhere
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should come here and look down
this stretch of beach
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and consider what was asked
of that generation to do
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on June 6th, 1944.
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Someday we might look back
on this and decide
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that saving Private Ryan
was the one decent thing
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we were able to pull out
of this whole godawful mess.