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John Glenn Announcement Speech
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Edited | Chronicler May 13, 2006 07:17am |
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| News Date | Thursday, April 21, 1983 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | This is one of the most important days of my life -- and I want to begin by saying it's good to be home.
New Concord is a very special place to me. It was here that I grew up; here that I went to school; and here, forty years ago this month, that I married the most courageous woman I've ever known, my wife Annie.
It was also here in New Concord that I learned the values that have guided me through life.
My father was a plumber, and he taught me the value of hard work. But after a few summers of swinging a pick, helping him dig water lines, I came to agree with Abe Lincoln, who said that while his father taught him to work, he never taught him to like it.
My mother was a schoolteacher. She taught me the value of one of the great experiments in human history. It's called American public education, and it's based on the revolutionary belief that all the children of this land deserve an opportunity: an opportunity to rise as high and go as far as their ambitions, talents and good fortune combine to take them.
I was given that chance. And I stand before you today because I believe that this generation of Americans deserves the same precious, priceless opportunity... |
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