 Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. I'm standing while we have the invitation by the Chief of Chaplains of the Veterans Administration, Chaplain Herbert Cleaver. This is the day which the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the greatest flag in the world. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Ladies and gentlemen, our national anthem. The President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Thank you very much. Thank you. Please be seated. Those who live today, remember those who do not. Those who know freedom, remember today those who gave up life for freedom. Today, in honor of the dead, we conduct ceremonies. We lay wreaths, we speak words of tribute, and in our memories, in our hearts, we hold them close to us still. Yet we also know, even as their families knew when they last looked upon them, that they can never be fully ours again, that they belong now to God and to that for which they so selflessly made a final and eternal act of devotion. We could not forget them. Even if they were not our own, we could not forget them. For all time, they are what we can only aspire to be, giving unselfish the epitome of human love to lay down one's life so that others might live. We think on their lives, we think on their final moments. In our minds eye, we see young Americans in a European forest, or on an Asian island, or at sea, or in aerial combat. And as life expired, we know that those who could had last thoughts of us and of their love for us. As they thought of us then, so too we think of them now, with love, with devotion, and with faith, the certainty that what they died for was worthy of their sacrifice. Faith, too, in God and in the nation that has pledged itself to his work and to the dream of human freedom. And a nation, too, that today and always pledges itself to their eternal memory. Thank you. God bless you.