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ve been generous enough to accord to these historic and lovely surroundings, this perfect day, and this very wonderful assembly, it is a tremendously impressive thing to an individual in my to speak more seriously, I need not tell you that the world situation is very must be apparent to all intelligent think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous plexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the , the people of this country are distant from the troubled areas of the earth, and it is hard for them to prehend the plight and consequent reactions of the longsuffering peoples of Europe and the effect of thosereactions on their governments in connection with our efforts to promote peace in the considering the requirements for the rehabilitation of Europe, the physical loss of life, the visible destruction of cities, factories, mines, and railroads was correctly estimated, but it has bee obvious during recent months that this visible destruction was probably less serious than the dislocation of the entire fabric of European the past ten years conditions have been highly feverish preparation for war and the more feverish maintenance of the war effort engulfed all aspects ofnational has fallen into disrepair or is entirely the arbitrary and destructive Nazi rule, virtually every possible enterprise was geared into the German war mercial ties, privateinstitutions, banks, insurance panies, and shipping panies disappeared through loss of capital, absorption through nationalization, or by simple many countries, confidence in the local currency has been severely breakdown of the business structure of Europe during the war was has been seriouslyretarded by the fact that two years after the close of hostilities a peace settlement with Germany and Austria has not beenagreed even given a more prompt solution of these difficult problems, the rehabilitation of the economic structure of Europe quite evidently will require a much longer time and greater effort than had been is a phase of this matter which is both interesting and farmer has always produced the foodstuffs to exchange with the city dweller for the other necessities of division of labor is the basis of modern the present time it is threatened with town and city industries are not producing adequate goods to exchange with the foodproducing materials and fuel are in short , as I have said, is lacking or worn farmer or the peasant cannot find the goods for sale which he desires to the sale of his farm produce for money which he cannot use seems to him an unprofitable , therefore, has withdrawn many fields from crop cultivation and he39。ve received a lot of letters in these last terrible stood out because it came from a young widow and a mother of three whose own husband was murdered with over 200 other Americans when Pan Am 103 was shot is what that woman said I should say to you today:The anger you feel is valid, but you must not allow yourselves to be consumed by hurt you feel must not be allowed to turn into hate, but instead into the search for loss you feel must not paralyze your own , you must try to pay tribute to your loved ones by continuing to do all the things they left undone, thus ensuring they did not die in words from one who also have lost too much, but you have not lost you have certainly not lost America, for we will stand with you for as many tomorrows as it ever we needed evidence of that, I could only recall the words of Governor and : “If anybody thinks that Americans are mostly mean and selfish, they ought to e to anybody thinks Americans have lost the capacity for love and caring and courage, they ought to e to Oklahoma.”To all my fellow Americans beyond this hall, I say, one thing we owe those who have sacrificed is the duty to purge ourselves of the dark forces which gave rise to this are forces that threaten our mon peace, our freedom, our way of us teach our children that the God of fort is also the God of righteousness: Those who trouble their own house will inherit the wind.185。re doing you and God bless you :Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address時(shí)間:2008612 10:19:08 來源:本站原創(chuàng)作者:echo(女宇航員選拔標(biāo)準(zhǔn) | 招聘英語編輯)進(jìn)入MP3下載頁面下載到我的手機(jī)(下載播放軟件 | 如不能播放請點(diǎn)擊此處)William Jefferson ClintonOklahoma Bombing Memorial Prayer Service Addressdelivered 23 April 1995 in Oklahoma City, OK[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.(2)]Thank you very much, Governor Keating and , Reverend Graham, to the families of those who have been lost and wounded, to the people of Oklahoma City, who have endured so much, and the people of this wonderful state, to all of you who are here as our fellow am honored to be here today to represent the American I have to tell you that Hillary and I also e as parents, as husband and wife, as people who were your neighbors for some of the best years of our our nation joins with you in mourn with share your hope against hope that some may still thank all those who have worked so heroically to save lives and to solve this crimethose here in Oklahoma and those who are all across this great land, and many who left their own lives to e here to work hand in hand with pledge to do all we can to help you heal the injured, to rebuild this city, and to bring to justice those who did this terrible sin took the lives of our American family, innocent children in that building, only because their parents were trying to be good parents as well as good workers。s whole look and feel and way of lifenot mere one could live long in Berlin without being pletely disabused of , instead, that has seen the difficulties of life in Berlin but chose to accept them, that continues to build this good and proud city in contrast to a surrounding totalitarian presence, that refuses to release human ener