 it is to be here for this marvelous event. Today, a great nation remembers its veterans, their service and sacrifice, their unkindness, but we can also draw strength from the memory of the soldiers, the sailors, the airmen, the Coast Guardsmen, and the Marines who served and sacrificed. A collective strength that has been the recently passed bill dewelleth the veterans program from agency to department level. Legislation to make the Veterans Administration part of the President's Cabinet was considerable of its government. This support of long-awaited recognition for veterans is only one indication of this man's feeling for our nation and the peace and the freedom that it stands for. Through his courageous candidacy, we achieve unprecedented progress towards limiting the arms of threatened global conflict, greatly strengthening the entire world's prospect for a lasting peace, 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. But they will forget that, even if they were not our own, we could not forget it. 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, or at sea, or in aerial combat, and as life expired, we know that those who could, and last thoughts of us, enter their love for us. Faith, Jew, and God, and the nation, and his precious self, and his work, and to the truth of human freedom, and nation to the truth that today and always praises itself to their own. This memorial is more beautiful today than when we first opened it up. Now, the president, the president did this in three ways. First, there were programs. One example is the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, which he launched. Which coordinated with all the veterans service organizing. There were 30 Vietnam veterans in the most senior post of government. In 1984, there were 300. Before you today, and she stood by our side through all the debate over the design. Well, we got a call. Could you bring the architects model? I just had a note, Mr. President. John Warner was going to join us today, but when he learned that you could come, then that freed him so that he could be at the dedication right now of the memorial in Loudoun County, Virginia. And of course, they planned to introduce legislation to change the name of California to New Virginia. Visit this memorial, Mr. President. Every Vietnam veteran sees a friend's name. And the thought that we have, this laid our hair or the hair and the commitment to country and the bonding among us, you can see in these men. To give to you and Mrs. Reagan, we hope that you can take it to your new home in California. Rose, you left behind. Well, today, Veterans Day as we do every year, we take that moment to embrace the gentle here. After the killing fields of Cambodia, after all that has happened in that unhappy part of the world, who can doubt that the lives. This memorial has become a monument to that living lot. They stood in a chill mini as if on a winter night's watch. And in that night, their deeds spoke to us, but we knew them not. Their voices called to us, but we heard them not. Yet in this land that God has blessed, the dawn of all we love, men are still being held against their will in Indochina. Otherwise, we will assume some are, and we will do everything we can to find them. Vietnam veterans take a rightful place among America's heroes. It appears to me that we have healing. And what can I say to our Vietnam veterans, but welcome home. Thank you. We will put this note here before we leave. Our young friends, yes, young friends, but in our hearts you will always be young, full of about place youth, love of life, love of joy, love of country. You fought for your country, and for its safety, and for the freedom of others with strength and courage. We love you, Lord. We honor you, and we have faith that as he does all, his sacred children, the Lord will bless you and keep you. The Lord will make his face and shine upon you and give you peace. Now and for the rest of your life.