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The American Dream--We Once Were the Envy of the World! (Original Post) KoKo Sep 2015 OP
Beautiful, moving and eloquent. Joe Shlabotnik Sep 2015 #1
Pres. Eisenhower - Apr.16, 1953 : dougolat Sep 2015 #2
Kick for the "Late Crowd"...It's a really good watch... KoKo Sep 2015 #3
Kick! KoKo Sep 2015 #4
refugees from Russia, The Middle East, and China are still trying to get into the USA uhnope Sep 2015 #5

dougolat

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2. Pres. Eisenhower - Apr.16, 1953 :
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 01:04 AM
Sep 2015

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
The world in arms is not spending money alone, it is spending the sweat of it's laborers, the genius of it's scientists, the hopes of it's children.
This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is Humanity hanging from a cross of iron"

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