Trump Takes Center Stage at July 4th 'Salute to America' Event With Jets, Tanks / HealthChoice

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[Music] [Music] ladies and gentlemen the President of the United States Donald J Trump and the First Lady of the United States Melania Trump [Music]

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hello America hello the first lady and I wish each and every one of you a happy Independence Day on this truly historic 4th of July today we come together as one nation with this very special salute to America we celebrate our history our people and the heroes who proudly defend our flag the brave men and women of the United States

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military we are pleased to have with us vice president Mike Pence and his wonderful wife Karen we're also joined by many hard-working members of Congress acting Secretary of Defense mark Esper and many other members of my cabinet and also the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joe Dunford thank you

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thank you thank you Lieutenant General Daniel Hawkinson of the National Guard and distinguished leaders representing each branch of the United States Armed Forces the Army Navy Air Force Coast Guard Marines and very soon the space force as we gather this evening in the joy of freedom we remember that all share a truly extraordinary heritage together we are part of one of the greatest stories

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ever told the story of America it is the epic tale of a great nation whose people have risked everything for what they know is right and what they know is true it is the chronicle of brave citizens who never give up on the dream of a better and brighter future and it is the saga of thirteen separate colonies that United to form the most just and virtuous Republic ever conceived on this

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day two hundred and forty three years ago our founding fathers pledged their lives their fortunes and their sacred honor to declare independence and defend our god-given rights Thomas Jefferson wrote the words that forever changed the course of humanity we hold these truths

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to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness with a single sheet of parchment and 56 signatures America began the greatest political journey in human history but on that day the Patriots who would determine the ultimate success of the struggle were a hundred miles away in

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New York there the Continental Army prepared to make its stand commanded by the beloved General George Washington as the delegates debated the declaration in Philadelphia Washington's army watched from Manhattan as a massive British invading fleet loomed dangerously across New York Harbor the British had come to crush the

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revolution in its infancy Washington's message to his troops laid bare the stakes he wrote the fate of unborn millions will now depend under God on the courage and conduct of this army we have therefore to resolve to conquer or die days later General Washington ordered the declaration read aloud to the troops the assembled soldiers just joined an

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excited crowd running down Broadway they toppled the statue of King George and melted it into bullets for battle the faraway King would soon learn a timeless lesson about the people of this majestic land Americans love our freedom and no one will ever take it away from us that same American spirit that emboldened our founders has kept us strong throughout our history to this day that spirit runs through the veins

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of every American patriot it lives on and each and every one of you here today it is the spirit daring and defiance excellence and adventure courage and confidence loyalty and love that built this country into the most exceptional nation in the history of the world and our nation is stronger today than it ever was before it is its strongest now

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[Applause] that same righteous American spirit forged our glorious Constitution that rugged American character led the legendary explorers Lewis and Clark on their perilous expedition across an untamed continent it drove others to journey west and stake out their claim on the wild

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frontier devotion to our founding ideals let American patriots to abolish the evil of slavery secure civil rights and expand the blessings of liberty to all Americans this is the noble purpose that inspired Abraham Lincoln to rededicate our nation to a new birth of freedom and to resolve that we will always have a

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government of By and For the People our quest for greatness unleashed a culture of discovery that led Thomas Edison to imagine his lightbulb Alexander Graham Bell to create the telephone the Wright brothers to look to the sky and see the next great frontier for Americans nothing is impossible exactly fifty years ago this month the world watched in all as Apollo 11

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astronauts launched into space with a wake of fire and nerves of steel and planted our great American flag on the face of the moon half a century later we are thrilled to have here tonight the famed NASA flight director who led Mission Control during that historic endeavor the renowned Gene Kranz

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[Applause] Gina I want you to know that we're going to be back in the moon very soon and someday soon we will plant the American flag on Mars happening Gina it's happening our nation's creativity and genius lit up the lights of Broadway and

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the sound stages of Hollywood it filled the concert halls and airwaves around the world with the sound of jazz opera country rock and roll and rhythm and blues it gave birth to the musical the motion picture the Western the World Series the Super Bowl the skyscraper the suspension bridge the assembly line and the mighty American Automobile it led

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our citizens to push the bounds of medicine and science to save the lives of millions here with us this evening is dr. Emanuel Frye ranked when Emanuel began his work 99 percent of children with leukemia died thanks largely to dr. fryer Ike's breakthrough treatments currently 90% of those with the most common childhood leukemias survive dr.

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you are a great American hero thank you [Applause] Americans always take care of each other that love and unity held together the first pilgrims it forged communities on

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the Great Plains it inspired Clara Barton to found the Red Cross and it keeps our nation thriving today here tonight from the Florida Panhandle is Tina Belcher her selfless generosity over three decades has made her known to all as mrs. angel every time a hurricane strikes mrs. angel turns her tiny kitchen into a disaster Relief Center on a single day

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after Hurricane Michael she gave 476 people a warm meal mrs. angel your boundless heart inspires us all thank you [Applause] thank you very much from our earliest

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days Americans of faith have uplifted our nation this evening we're joined by sister Deirdre Bern sister Bern is a retired Army surgeon who served for nearly 30 years on September 11 2001 the sister raced to ground zero through smoke and debris she administered first aid and comfort to all today sister Bern runs a medical clinic serving the poor in our nation's

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capital sister thank you for your lifetime of service thank you our nation has always honored the heroes who serve our communities the firefighters first responders police sheriff's ice Border Patrol and all of the brave men and women of law enforcement on this July 4th we pay special tribute to the military service members who laid

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down their lives for our nation we are deeply moved to be in the presence this evening of gold star families whose loved ones made the supreme sacrifice thank you [Applause] thank you very much throughout our history our country has been made ever greater by citizens who risked it all

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for equality and for justice 100 years ago this summer the women's suffrage movement led Congress to pass the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote in 1960 a thirst for justice led african-american students to sit down at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro North Carolina it was one of the very first civil rights sit-ins and

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it started a movement all across our nation Clarence Henderson was 18 years old when he took his place in history almost six decades later he is here tonight in a seat of Honor Clarence thank you for making this country a much better place for all America in 1963 Reverend Martin Luther King jr. stood here on these very steps and called on our nation to live out the true meaning of its Creed and let

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freedom ring for every citizen all across our land America's fearless resolve has inspired heroes who defined our national character from George Washington John Adams and Betsy Ross to Douglas you know Frederick Douglas the great Frederick Douglas Harriet Tubman Amelia Earhart Douglas MacArthur Dwight

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Eisenhower Jackie Robinson and of course John Glenn it is willed our warriors up mountains and across minefields it has liberated continents split the atom and brought tyrants and empires to their knees here with us this evening his Earl Morse after retiring from the Air Force Earl worked at a VA hospital in Ohio Earl found that many World War two veterans could not afford to visit

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their memorial on the National Mall so Earl began the very first honor flights that have now brought over two hundred thousand World War two heroes to visit America's Monument Earl thank you we salute you thank you thank you thank you thank you our warriors from a hallowed roll-call of american patriots running all the way back to the first souls who fought in

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one american independence today just as it did 243 years ago the future of American freedom rests on the shoulders of men and women willing to defend it we are proudly joined tonight by heroes from each branch of the u.s. armed forces including three recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor thank you they and thousands before us served with

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immense distinction and they loved every minute of that service to young Americans across our country now is your chance to join our military and make a truly great statement in life and you should do it we will now begin our celebration of the United States Armed Forces honoring each branch is unique culture rich history service song and

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distinct legacy I invite acting secretary please marquez / Secretary of Defense and chairman Dunford head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff please join me [Applause] in August of 1790 by request of George

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Washington and Alexander Hamilton Congress established a fleet of ten Swift vessels to defend our shores these revenue cutters would fight pirates top smugglers and safeguard our borders they are the ancestors of our faithful Coast Guard when our ships were seized in sailors kidnapped by foreign powers in 1812 it was a Revenue Cutter the Swift

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schooner Thomas Jefferson that swept in to capture the first British vessel of the war in 1897 when 265 whalers were trapped in ice and the ice fields of Alaska were closing up courageous officers trekked 1500 miles through the frozen frontier to rescue those starving men from certain death in 1942 the Coast Guard manned landing craft for invasions

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in the Pacific when the enemy attacked US Marines from the shores of Guadalcanal Coast Guard single men first last Douglas Munro used his own boat to shield his comrades from pounding gunfire Munro gave His life hundreds of Marines were saved as he lay dying on the deck his final question embodied devotion that sails with every Coast Guardsman did they get off

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on d-day the Coast Guard's famous matchbox fleet sir valiantly through every hour of the greatest amphibious invasion in the history of our country one Coxon said the water boiled with bullets like a mud puddle in hailstone but still the Coast Guard brave death to put our boys on Utah and Omaha beaches every Coast Guardsman is trusted to put service before all coasties plunge from

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helicopters and barrel through pouring rain and crashing waves to save American lives they secure our borders from drug runners and terrorists in rough seas at high speeds their sharpshooters take out smugglers engines with a single shot they never miss when the red racing stripes of a coast guard vessel break the horizon when their chopper blades pierce the sky those in distress know that the help is on their way and our

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enemies know their time has come these guardians of our waters stand semper paratus they are always ready they are the United States Coast Guard representing the Coast Guard today you will soon see an hh-60 jayhawk helicopter based at Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater along with an hh-60 five dolphin from Air Station Atlantic

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City and an HC 144 ocean sentry from Air Station Miami [Applause] [Music]

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[Music] [Music] [Applause] thank you thank you to the Coast Guard on a cold December morning in 1903 a miracle occurred over the dunes of Kitty Hawk North Carolina when two bicycle

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makers from Ohio defied gravity with a 12 horsepower engine wings made of cotton and just a few dollars in their pockets just six years later America was training its first pilots to take these magnificent machines up and over the field of battle in World War one our fly boys rushed the skies of Europe and aces like Eddie Rickenbacker filled hearts and headlines with tales of daring duels and the clouds general Billy Mitchell

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saw the promise of this technology and risk court-martial in his quest for an independent air force he was proven right when empires across the oceans tried to carve up the world for themselves and America stood in the way we wouldn't let it happen after Pearl Harbor Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle and his Raiders flew b-25 bombers off a carrier deck in the

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deep Pacific in a daring feat of American resolve and as President Roosevelt said the Nazis built the fortress around Europe but they forgot to put a roof on it so we crushed them all from the air 177 Liberator bombers flew dangerously low through broad daylight without fighter protection to [ __ ] the Nazi war machine at Ploiesti more than 300 Airmen gave their lives to destroy the enemy

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oil refiners and five pilots were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for their actions in that single raid it was airman Chuck Yeager who first broke the sound barrier it was Airmen like Gus Chris and Buzz Aldrin who traded their Sabre jets for rockets to the Stars and it is our incredible airmen today who wield the most powerful weapon systems on the

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planet earth for over 65 years no enemy Air Force has managed to kill a single American soldier because the skies belong to the United States of America no enemy has attacked our people without being met by a roar of thunder and the awesome might of those who bid farewell to earth and soar into the wild blue yonder they are the united states air force representing the air force you will soon

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see beautiful brand-new f-22 Raptors from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia and one magnificent b-2 stealth bomber from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri [Applause] [Music]

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[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] what a great country in October of 1775

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the Continental Congress ordered the construction of two Swift sailing vessels each carrying ten cannons and 80 men to sail eastward our young fleet tested their sea legs against the most powerful Navy the world has ever seen John Paul Jones America's first great naval hero said I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way he got his wish many times when his

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ship was shot into pieces off the coast of England by a British vessel and her four dozen guns when demanded to surrender Jones very famously declared I have not yet begun to fight when our Navy begins fighting they finish the job the war of 1812 Captain James Lawrence fell with his brothers on the USS Chesapeake his dying command

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gained immortality don't give up the ship in the Battle of Mobile Bay Admiral David Farragut lashed himself to the rigging of his flagship to see beyond the cannon-smoke crying damn the torpedoes full speed ahead in World War two it was aviators launched from the carrier enterprise Hornet Yorktown who

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filled the skies of Midway and turned the tide of the Pacific War nobody could beat us nobody could come close on d-day çb engineers came ashore to destroy blockades and barriers making way for the invasion many lost their lives but they took the German defenses with them and our main crushed upon the beaches like a mighty storm from the naval

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demolition units of world war ii arose a force that became famous in that mekong delta they don't want to see our force again the very best of the very best the Navy SEALs it was the seals who delivered vengeance on the terrorists who planned the September 11th attack on our homeland it was the seals who stand ready to bring righteous retribution in mountain jungle desert to those who do us harm

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America's sailors are not born they are forged by the sea their traditions are rich with the salt and blood of three centuries when Old Glory crests the waves of far insurance every friend and every foe knows that justice sails those waters it sails with the United States Navy representing our great Navy today

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will be two f-18 Super Hornets from Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia along with two f-35 Lightning from Naval Air Station Lemoore in California [Music]

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so great in November of 1775 the Continental Congress created two battalions of a new kind of warrior one who kept and would protect our ships and sailors and be at home both ashore and the mast with musket in hand their versatility was proven in the War of Independence when 234 Continental Marines conducted their first amphibious ray capturing the British supply of

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gunpowder and cannons at Fort Nassau ever since Marines have fought in every American war their legend has grown and grown and grown with each passing year it was the Marines who won America's first overseas battle vanquishing Barbary pirates on the shores of Tripoli their high stiff collar which shielded them from the pirate sword earned them the immortal name Leatherneck it was the Marines who after two long

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days of battle marched through the halls of Montezuma it was the Marines who took heavy casualties to kick the kaisers troops out of Bella wood in World War one earning the title devil dogs and it was the Marines who raised the flag on the black sands of Iwo Jima from the Chosun reservoir to Khe Sanh from Helmand to Baghdad Marines have

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struck fear into the hearts of our enemies and put solace into the hearts of our friends Marines always lead the way after the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut which claimed the lives of 241 great US servicemen Marine Sergeant Jeff green Ashton lay in bandages so badly wounded barely alive when the Commandant of the Marine Corps came to visit his hospital sergeant Nash

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tan had to feel for the generals collar he wanted to feel his four stars he could not see and he could not speak he signaled for pen and paper and with shaking hand he wrote two words Semper Fi that motto semper fidelis always faithful burns in the soul of every

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Marine a sacred promise the Corps has kept since the birth of our country they are the elite masters of air and land and sea on battlefields all across the globe they are the United States Marines representing the Marine Corps today will be a brand new vh 92 soon to serve as marine 1 along with two v-22 Ospreys

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from the famed HM x1 helicopter squadron at Quantico the night Hawks [Applause] [Music]

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[Music] [Applause] in June of 1775 the Continental Congress created a unified army out of the revolutionary forces encamped around Boston and New York and named after the great George Washington

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commander-in-chief the Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown our army man the amperes it Rand the ramparts it took over the airports it did everything it had to do and at Fort McHenry under the Rockets red glare it had nothing but victory and when Dawn came their

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star-spangled banner waved defiant at shiloh Antietam and Gettysburg our soldiers gave the last full measure of devotion for the true unity of our nation and the freedom of all Americans in the trenches of World War one an Army sergeant named Alvin York faced an inferno of m-v fire and refused to retreat he said I won't leave I won't

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stop he shot his rifle 18 times killing 18 of the enemy when they fixed bayonets and charged he killed seven more the entire German machine gun battalion surrendered because of one man Alvin York a generation later the army returned to Europe and embarked upon a great crusade with knives and rifles in hand the Rangers scale the cliffs of Normandy

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the 101st airborne left into the danger from above illuminated only by enemy explosions and burning aircraft they threw back then that's the empire with lightening of their own from the turrets of Sherman tanks and the barrels of the m1 rifle in the darkness of the Battle of the Bulge with Nazis on every side one soldier is reported to have said they've got to surround it again the

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poor bastards outnumbered American warriors fought through the bunkers of pork chop hill and held the line of civilization in Korea in the elephant grass of Vietnam the first cavalry made it stand amid a forest consumed inflamed with enemies at every single turn the army brought America's righteous fury down to al-qaeda in Afghanistan and cleared the bloodthirsty killers from

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their caves they liberated Phylicia and Mosul and helped liberate and obliterator is caliphate just recently in Syria 100% God through centuries our soldiers have always pointed toward home proclaiming this will defend they live by the Creed of Douglas MacArthur in war there is no substitute for victory they

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are the greatest soldiers on earth [Applause] [Music]

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nearly 250 years ago a volunteer army or farmers and shopkeepers blacksmith merchants and militiamen risk life and limb to secure American liberty and self-government this evening we have witnessed the noble might of the Warriors who continue that legacy they guard our birthright with vigilance and fierce devotion to the flag and to our great country now we must go forward as a nation with

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that same unity of purpose as long as we stay true to our coast as long as we remember our great history as long as we never ever stop fighting for a better future then there will be nothing that America can not do [Applause]

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thank you we will always be the people who defeated a tyrant Pross the continent harnessed science took to the skies and soared into the heavens because we will never forget that we are Americans and the future belongs to us the future belongs to the brave the strong the proud and the free we are one

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people chasing one dream and one magnificent destiny we all share the same heroes the same home the same heart and we are all made by the same Almighty God from the banks of the Chesapeake to the cliffs of California from the humming shores of the Great Lakes to the sand dunes of the Carolinas from the fields

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of the Heartland to the Everglades of Florida the spirit of American independence will never fade never fail but will reign forever and ever and ever so once more to every citizen throughout our land have a glorious Independence Day have a great 4th of July I want to thank the Army Band the National Park Service the Interior

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Department the incredible pilots overhead and those who are making possible the amazing fireworks display later this evening now as the band plays the Battle Hymn of the Republic I invite the first lady vice president and mrs. pence to service secretaries and military leaders to join me on stage for one more salute to America by the famous incredible

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talented Blue Angels god bless you god bless the military and god Bless America happy 4th of July [Applause]

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I thank my lucky stars to be living here today because the flag still stands for free and they can take [Music] [Music]

Trump Takes Center Stage at July 4th 'Salute to America' Event With Jets, Tanks

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