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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 n。and many there who served the rest of uswho worked to help the elderly and the disabled, who worked to support our farmers and our veterans, who worked to enforce our laws and to protect us say clearly, they served us well, and we are for so many of you they were also neighbors and saw them at church or the PTA meetings, at the civic clubs, at the ball know them in ways that all the rest of America could to all the members of the families here present who have suffered loss, though we share your grief, your pain is unimaginable, and we know cannot undo is God39。re doing you and God bless you :Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address時間: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。it cannot withstand wall cannot withstand I would like, before I close, to say one have read, and I have been questioned since I39。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 energies or aspirations, something that speaks with a powerful voice of affirmation, that says “yes” to this city, yes to the future, yes to a word, I would submit that what keeps you in Berlinis “l(fā)ove.”Love both profound and this gets to the root of the matter, to the most fundamental distinction of all between East and totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an ago, before the East Germans began rebuilding their churches, they erected a secular structure: the television tower at Alexander ever since, the authorities have been working to correct what they view as the tower39。s a great deal to be said for your fortitude, for your defiant I believe there39。s my hope that an authority can be found in East Berlin to sponsor visits from young people of the Western final proposal, one close to my heart: Sport represents a source of enjoyment and ennoblement, and you may have noted that the Republic of KoreaSouth Koreahas offered to permit certain events of the 1988 Olympics to take place in the sports petitions of all kinds could take place in both parts of this what better way to demonstrate to the world the openness of this city than to offer in some future year to hold the Olympic games here in Berlin, East and these four decades, as I have said, you Berliners have built a great 39。Berlin was under today, despite all the pressures upon this city, Berlin stands secure in its freedom itself is transforming the the Philippines, in South and Central America, democracy has been given a the Pacific, free markets are working miracle after miracle of economic the industrialized nations, a technological revolution is taking place, a revolution marked by rapid, dramatic advances in puters and Europe, only one nation and those it controls refuse to join the munity of in this age of redoubled economic growth, of information and innovation, the Soviet Union faces a choice: It must make fundamental changes, or it will bee , thus, represents a moment of in the West stand ready to cooperate with the East to promote true openness, to break down barriers that separate people, to create a safer, freer surely there is no better place than Berlin, the meeting place of East and West, to make a people of Berlin: Today, as in the past, the United States stands for the strict observance and full implementation of all parts of the Four Power Agreement of us use this occasion, the 750th anniversary of this city, to usher in a new era, to seek a still fuller, richer life for the Berlin of the , let us maintain and develop the ties between the Federal Republic and the Western sectors of Berlin, which is