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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 19:45-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Subject: Arlington National Cemetary: Remarks by the President 5.31.93

                           THE WHITE HOUSE

                    Office of the Press Secretary

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For Immediate Release                               May 31, 1993     

	     
                       REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
                       AT MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY
                    AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
	     
                     Arlington National Cemetery
                         Arlington, Virginia    

11:30 A.M. EDT
	     
	     THE PRESIDENT:  Distinguished leaders of the Armed 
Services, the Defense Department, the Cabinet, the Congress, the 
leaders of our veterans organizations here, to all the veterans and 
their families who are here, and to all those here who are family 
members of veterans buried in this cemetery or in any other place 
around the globe.  And to my fellow Americans:
	     
	     We come together this morning, along with our countrymen 
and women in cities across the land to honor those who died that we 
might live in freedom, the only way that Americans can ever truly 
live.  Today we put aside our differences to better reflect on what 
unites us. 
	     
	     The lines so often drawn between and among us, lines of 
region or race or partisanship, all those lines fall away today as we 
gaze upon the lines of markers that surround us on these hallowed 
hills.  The lines of difference are freedom's privilege.  The lines 
of these markers are freedom's cost. 
	     
	     Today Americans all across our land draw together in 
shared experience and shared remembrance.  And whether it is an older 
veteran in Florida, or a teenager in New Mexico, or a mother in 
Wisconsin, all today will bow their heads and put hand to heart.  And 
without knowing each other, still we will all be joined in spirit, 
because we are Americans and because we know we are equal 
shareholders in humanity's most uplifting dream.
	     
	     Today, as we fly the American flag, some will recall the 
pledge we began to recite daily as youngsters in grade school, with 
solemn faith and awkward salute; some of us even before we learned 
the difference between our right and left hands.  Others will 
remember the flag waving over public gatherings, large and very 
small.  But on this day, in this serene and solemn setting, conscious 
of the past, conscious, too, of the perils all too present, what we 
see most vividly in that flag are the faces of American soldiers who 
gave their lives in battle; and the faces of this generation of young 
servicemen and women, very, very much alive, still training and 
preparing for possible conflicts tomorrow.
	     
	     From the first militiaman downed at Lexington to today's 

                                 END11:36 A.M. EDT