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Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nRonald Reagan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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