1963 History Forgotten

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Today is actually the fifty ninth anniversary
of JFK's address at American University in Washington,

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DC on June tenth of nineteen sixty
three. I did take some time

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to review that speech. It is
about twenty seven minutes long and fairly easy

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to find on the internet. There
was a couple of excerpts I wanted to

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take some time to go ahead and
share with people, which I thought was

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extremely interesting. This speech was in
regards to bringing an end to the Cold

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War between Russia and the United States. Some of the things that he had

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to say in this speech was what
kind of peace do I mean? What

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kind of peace do we seek?
Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world

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by American weapons of war, Not
the peace of the grave or the security

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of the slave. I'm talking about
genuine peace, the kind of peace that

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makes life on earth worth living,
the kind that enables men and nations to

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grow and to hope and to build
a better life for their children.