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Good afternoon. We have a really Great Program ahead and we invite you to listen, watch, or follow along on twitter using the npclive. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public, and so any applause or reaction that you may hear are not, is not necessarily from the working press. So let me begin by introducing the head table, and idd like to ask you to please hold your applause until all of the head table guests are introduced. Helpful to have the list. So from my left and your right, we have shawn butcher, Communications Manager at disabled sports usa and editor of challenge magazine. We have retired navy captain jim noon, commander of the American Legion post here at the National Press ....
Today only two raiders remain, Lieutenant Colonel dick cole and Staff Sergeant david thatcher. May thethatcher. May the breath of god uphold their noble and heroic story. May it carry to other generations and even to other nations a message to inspire citizens everywhere to believe and act upon the truth that there is no greater aspiration than to be willing to lay down ones life to save others. May those who made the ultimate sacrifice that day and thereafter rest in peace along with those companions who have joined them in eternity in the years since. Bless all women and men in military service, their families and all those who put themselves in harms way for the safety of others. God bless america. And grant us peace both in the present and with you forever. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, please remain at your seats for the departure of the official party. In june preside ....