He never forgot, and he used to tell my brother and me how it felt watching this young man get loaded onto trip trains, knowing that many would never return home. After he died, many years later, i received an outpouring of letters and photographs from some of the men he had trained if it served and returned home, and built lives and families of their own. I just couldnt believe that that experience, being yelled at by my father, was so formative for them it and i was so glad to hear, frankly. I saw the same sense of dedication and duty when, as first lady and then as senator from new york, i visited with servicemembers and their families all over the world. Then i was honored to serve on the Armed Services committee and to work closely with men and women throughout this building, and in particular with secretary mchugh who would become a great partner with me on the half of our military bases and personnel in new york. And what we did to try to keep moving forward in improving readine
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postal service, an iconic american institution since the 18th century, can survive in the 21st century. it is hard to believe that it does come to this, but it has. so much of our nation s progress is interwoven with the history of the postal service. if you look at some old maps of america, you see that a lot of the roads that we use today started out as colonial post roads. as our nation pushed west before the railroads were built, the post office created the pony express to keep america connected with its frontiers. and the post office subsidies for air mail in the early days of aviation helped jump-start the fledgling airline industry. through parts of four centuries now the postal system has actually helped make as a nation, connecting the eric and people to one another, moving commerce and culture coast-to-coast and to all points in between. postal service has also bound the individual towns and neighborhoods together with the local post office often serving as t
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story. i appreciate the chance of being in this extraordinary facility, where a lot of hard work occurs. it is in bill bullion, it is ennobling. as people work hard we can afford a strong economy whose military can defend us. we love and care for those people in the service, and thank you to the congressman for welcoming us here in his district. we appreciate his election and appreciate looking forward to many more. this is gone to be a conversation today. i do not have a text written. you can see what i have got. i have some notes of some things i want to tell you. i will not be reading. i use a teleprompter from time to time. ournt to talk of about economy and what is going to take to get america back to work again. over the next couple months, and over the next couple decades. i want to describe to you division i have of what of some i want to describe to you the vision i have what america should be over the next couple decades. let us say our people should be the best
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