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[ applause ] since the days of the Revolution Congress has awarded gold medals to express the peoples appreciation for duh sting wished. The force was activated in 1842 as an elite unit of 1,800 american and canadian commandoes. Just how elite . For every man they lost, they killed 25. For every man they cap which tu they took 285. The enemy dubbed them the devils and so effective today that our special forces refer to them as pioneers. Let me thank you for being here. Of course, in addition to many family members, we are truly humbled to have with us some 42 veterans of the force. Please join...

The events of sunday, september 15th, 1963, and the young innocent lives that were lost that day transformed our nation. On that day we not only lost the lives of four little girls but we must not forget that two young boys, johnny robinson, 16 and virgil ware, 13, also killed in birmingham within hours of the church bombing. Today we know that the movement that transpired from those tragic events liberated not only a people but a nation, a nation gripped, gripped with hatred and apathy. With the recent Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights act we know that progress is always under attac...

Please remain standing as the chaplain of the United States senate dr. Barry black gives the invocation. Let us pray. Sovereign god, your glory fills the skies. Triumph over the shades of night. Lord, thank you for this congressional Gold Medal Ceremony that commemorates the brief lives of four exemplary young women, casualties in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church on september 15th, 1963. May their deaths on a day that they came to church to worship you remind us of the senseless and deranged nature of evil motivating us to remember that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is...

I please remain standing as the chaplain of the house of the United States Patrick Conroy gives the convocation. Let us pray. Lord, god of mercy, we gather to remember an iconic moment in our history when millions of souls in american were declared to be freed men and women and slavery was forever formally banned from the United States of america by the adoption of the 13th amendment to the constitution. It was in advance in our evolving sense of those freedoms we have come to believe define us as a selfgoverning people. Unfortunately, the badges and incidents of slavery remained for decades. ...