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speaking to us living as their beneficiaries inspiring us to carry on   
to protect those liberties for which they sacrificed their lives. That   
solace, that hope and that obligation to carry on remain with us as an   
everlasting memory. The spirit of Cassino is symbolical of all the fields   
where our men have fought to defend human liberty. The mighty armada of   
liberation passed on to the eternal city from earliest war days. The great   
leaders labored long and tirelessly to spare this sacred and historic city   
from still another pillage and destruction. Its fate was long in the   
balance. Rome was liberated and remains almost intact. The battle line   
presses over onward toward the lofty Alps. The road is strewn with wrecked   
homes, villages, railroads bridges, highways, factories, harbors, ships   
and more important in mnay areas a civilian population left homeless in   
rags, underfed, sick or wounded. These in thousands as the line of battle   
moves forward slowly but relentlessly. It is followed by first aid station   
field, hospitals evacuation hospitals, base hospital. Thousands of   
doctors, nurses and assistants care for our men as never before in our   
                  military history. These                   
 
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