Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120527:12:05:00
Supplanted by subsequent wars and subsequent war dead, we came as a nation to observe it together. to mourn our dead collectively. but in those days when the stench of death hung over a union that had barely survived, it was that hours that was contested, that was claimed by each side. as walt whitman said of them, the dead, the dead, the dead, our dead, or north, or south, ours all. today it can seem at times is if we barely inhabit the same union as ar own soldiers and we're not in union with a peasant in a remote afghan village who is remote enough to have a family scratching out its meager...
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