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What a great opportunity for joint Base

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Andrews to host a premiere of Masters

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of the Earth . The joint Base Andrews

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team are excited and we've been working

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very hard to get ready and prepared for

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such an outstanding historical event

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right here at America's Airfield .

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These men fought in the most difficult

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air environment in history and I'd

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rather you hear from them directly . So

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for now , let me say thank you for the

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incredible veterans of that campaign

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that we have with us today . I cannot

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tell you what a privilege it is to be

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in this company of the brass . I

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was extremely fortunate to

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have been a member of the group that is

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being memorialized in the film that you

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will be seeing the Masters of the Air .

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And thanks to the 100 Kilometers

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Foundation , I was brought here to

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participate in this with you and it is

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indeed an honor and a privilege to be

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here . Actually , it's an honor to be

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anywhere at this stage in my

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life . Yeah .

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Thank you . We're also grateful to the

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organizations that help record preserve

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and honor the history of these veterans

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and their service . We have

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representatives from the 100th Bond

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Group Foundation , the Eighth Air Force

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Museum and the Tuskegee Airman

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Institute here today , understanding

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that our nation has foundations that

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we've never really talked about . And

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one of the biggest foundations of our

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nation is the Tuskegee . They're the

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ones who forced away during World War

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Two , who not only made a difference

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for themselves but for our entire

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country in a very minor way , a story

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yet underrated , under told . But the

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more folks understand it , the more

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they understand the shows that they

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stand on 100 bomb Group foundation that

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I am privileged to serve as the

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president of . We've worked as

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historical and technical consultants on

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this for 10 years . So to see it come

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to life is really personally and , and

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just so gratifying the world is now

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going to meet the , the men of the

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Hunter Bomb Group and the larger Eighth

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Air Force . You look at a series like

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this , uh , called Masters of The Air .

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It takes historical stuff and it brings

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it back to real life now as we approach

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the 80th anniversary of D Day . Um ,

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this generation is commonly called the

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Greatest generation . And I think we

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saw that in the movie that we just

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witnessed these veterans and all

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those who fought in the air war over

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Europe built a legacy that today's

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airmen and guardians hope to live up to

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every single day . Ah , each of the

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pilots made me feel very proud for our

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history , ah , without their integrity ,

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their character and their actions that

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they took . Ah , we would not be where

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we are today . It is awful to

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contemplate a world in which the allies

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didn't win . World War Two . And it is

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impossible to conceive of allied

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victory without the United States Air

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Force . We draw the applause of the

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crowd . You earn the affection and

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admiration of our country . We today

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stand on the shoulders of the giants

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that have served before us . So it's an

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honor for us to pay homage to that

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history and that legacy of defending

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America .