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Thank you to veterans and active duty military. and then we have lost people that we love door are friends with. it s very difficult to see we should hear from the president of the united states on this over the next few hours or days and weeks ahead to make sure americans are getting out of afghanistan safely and those that help the american soldiers also. i will read this statement from former vice president the biden administration disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan dishonors the memory of those heroic americans who gave their lives and all who greatly serve their defending freedom these past 20 years for troops and ....
In august of last year, at hickam field in hawaii, it was our honor to be present when 55 flag-draped coffins burying the remains of americans who fought in the korean war were returned to american soil, and i must tell you. for this son of a combat veteran of the korean war, i will never be given a higher honor than to have been present when our boys were finally coming home. [ applause ] some of the remains have been identified, but more work remains. this is just the beginning, but ....
[ applause ] from the hour of our nation s birth our best and bravest have stepped forward to defend freedom. the unbroken cord of military service stretches into the midst of american history. from bunker hill to bella wood, from san juan hill to saipan, from the coral sea to kandahar. heroic americans have answered their nation s call. and paid the ultimate price for our freedom. their duty was to serve. our duty is to remember. history records that more than 40 million have served in the ....
Uniform of the united states, and nearly 1 million americans have fallen in uniform since our nation s founding. americans of every race and creed have fought and died for our freedom, but as i can tell from the faces of those gathered here, you know the numbers don t tell the story. they tell nothing of the lives of promise cut short, of dreams unfulfilled, and families shattered. words fail when heroes fall. so we do well on this day each year just to tell their stories. and to let their words and deeds speak for them. david kerr was born in louisiana in 1893. he was a student at columbia ....
Retained. some of these listed at m.i.a.s or k.i.a.s and we also know someone did survive. for instance, major sam logan, air force. shot down september 1950. the soviets actually showed a video of logan alive near the wreckage of his plane. and he was listed as m.i.a. he should have been listed as a prisoner of war. and other evidence indicating that logan survived. we don t know how many americans are still alive. maybe they re all dead. one thing we have not gotten, we haven t gotten defense department under any administration to pursue this with the vigor necessary, because there is firm evidence there were americans who were taken into captivity and we need to have an accounting. we will leave it there. gordon chang, thank you. admiral, thank you as always, sir and hans nichols on duty at the white house. ....