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mr. president mrs. Reagan families of

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the Challenger crew other members of the

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NASA family ladies and gentlemen thank

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you for coming here today to honor seven

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brave Americans the crew of the

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spaceship Challenger dick Scobee Mike

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Smith Judy Resnik Ron McNair el Onizuka

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greg jarvis and christa mcauliffe were

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explorers who blazed the trail for the

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rest of us their courage and dedication

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represents all that's best in each of us

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and in America the Challenger crew took

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something of all of us aloft on Tuesday

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their dreams of discovery are our dreams

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and the men and the women of that flight

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will always live in our thoughts and in

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our hearts I pray that families and

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friends will remember our pride and our

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gratitude and find some refuge and its

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we are gathered here today as a family

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the family that shares a common dream

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common goal common commitment and now a

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common tragic and devastating loss his

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family's do we have drawn together to

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remember with love and faith 7 who

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embodied in a very special way that

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ron Greg Kristin

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shall we pause for a moment of prayer

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and meditation o thou whom we call by

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various names approached by several

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paths and at all acknowledged as a

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source of life my greatness is seen in

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this vast and wondrous universe we turn

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now to thee because we need the

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assurance of a love equally great and

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wondrous to feel that underneath are the

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everlasting arms and to know that the

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hand that holds us is a hand we trust we

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come here grateful for the many ways we

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have known those whom today we mourn as

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husband wife father mother daughter son

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colleague neighbor and friend

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each brings his or her own memories of

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love and laughter the strength and

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tenderness enthusiasm and joy skill and

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courage and we are grateful for the

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privilege of having known them having

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our lives touched by their lives being

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bound by ties of love and care now we

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pray for those who most keenly feel this

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lost may they is surely feel the love

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that surrounds them the caring that

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reaches out to them may we be bearers of

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life spirit of love so that together we

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may know not only grief but also the

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a reading for hope and strength from the

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46 Psalms God is our refuge and strength

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a very present help in trouble therefore

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we will not fear though the earth should

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change though the mountains shake in the

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heart of the sea though its waters roar

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and foam though the mountains tremble

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with its tumult theres a river whose

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streams make glad the City of God the

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Holy habitation of the Most High God is

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in the midst of her she shall not be

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moved God will help her right early the

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nation's rage the kingdom's totter he

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utters his voice the earth melts the

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Lord of Hosts is with us the God of

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Jacob is our refuge come behold the

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works of the Lord how he has wrought

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desolations in the earth he makes Wars

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cease to the end of the earth he breaks

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the bow and shatters the spear he burns

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the chariots with fire be still know

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that i am god i am exalted among the

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nations i am exalted in the earth the

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Lord of Hosts is with us the God of

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we come together today to mourn the loss

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of seven brave Americans to share the

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grief that we all feel and perhaps in

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that sharing to find the strength to

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bear our sorrow and the courage to look

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for the seeds of hope our nation's loss

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is first a profound personal loss to the

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family the friends and the loved ones of

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our shuttle astronauts to those they

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left behind the mothers the father's the

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husbands and wives brothers and sisters

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yes and especially the children all of

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America stands besides you in your time

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of sorrow what we say today is only an

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inadequate expression of what we carry

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in our hearts words pale in the shadow

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of grief they seem insufficient even to

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measure the brave sacrifice of those you

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loved and we so admired their truest

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testimony will not be in the words we

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speak but in the way they led their

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lives and the way they lost their lives

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with dedication honor and an

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unquenchable desire to explore this

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mysterious and beautiful universe the

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best we can do is remember our seven

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astronauts our challenger seven remember

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them as they lived bringing life and

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love and joy to those who knew them and

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pride to a nation they came from all

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parts of this great country from South

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Carolina to Washington State Ohio to

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Mohawk New York Hawaii to North Carolina

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to Concord New Hampshire they were so

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different yet in their mission their

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quest they held so much in common we

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remember dick Scobee the commander who

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spoke the last words we heard from

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they shuttle Challenger he served as a

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fighter pilot in Vietnam earning many

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medals for bravery later as a test pilot

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of advanced aircraft before joining the

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space program danger was a familiar

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command you companion to Commander

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Scotty we remember Michael Smith who

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earned enough medals as a combat pilot

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to cover his chest including the Navy

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Distinguished Flying Cross 3 air medals

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and the Vietnamese Cross of gallantry

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with silver star in gratitude from a

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nation he fought to keep free we

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remember Judith Resnik known as jr. to

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her friends always smiling always eager

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to make a contribution finding beauty

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and the music she played on her piano in

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her off hours we remember Ellison

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Onizuka who was a child running barefoot

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through the coffee fields and macadamia

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groves of high dreamed of someday

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traveling to the moon being an Eagle

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impressive achievements of his career we

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remember Ronald McNair who said that he

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learned perseverance in the cotton

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fields of South Carolina his dream was

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to live aboard the space station

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performing experiments and playing a

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saxophone in the weightlessness of space

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Iran we will miss your saxophone and we

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will build your space station we

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remember Gregory Jarvis on that

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ill-fated flight he was carrying with

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him a flag of his university in Buffalo

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New York a small token he said to the

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people who unlocked his future we

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remember Christa McAuliffe who captured

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the imagination of the entire nation

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inspiring us with her pluck her restless

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spirit of discovery a teacher not just

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to her students but to an entire people

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instilling us all with the excitement of

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this journey we ride into the future we

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will always remember them these skilled

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professionals scientists and adventurers

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these artists and teachers and family

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men and women and we will cherish each

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of their stories stories of triumph and

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bravery stories of true American heroes

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on the day of the disaster our nation

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held a vigil by our television sets in

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one cruel moment our exhilaration turned

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to horror we waited and watched and

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tried to make sense of what we had seen

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that night I listened to a call-in

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program on the radio people of every age

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spoke of their sadness and the pride

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they felt in our astronauts across

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America we are reaching out holding

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hands and finding comfort in one another

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the sacrifice of your loved ones stirred

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the soul of our nation and through the

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pain our hearts have been open to a

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profound truth the future is not free

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the story of all human progress is one

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of us struggle against all odds we

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learned again that this America which

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Abraham Lincoln called the last best

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hope of man on earth was built on

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heroism and noble sacrifice it was built

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by men and women like our seventh star

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voyagers who answered a call be on duty

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who gave more than was expected or

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required and who gave it little thought

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of worldly reward we think back to the

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pioneers of an earlier century the

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sturdy souls who took their families and

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their belongings and set out into the

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frontier of the American West often they

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met with terrible hardship along the

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Oregon Trail you could still see the

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grave markers of those who fell on the

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way but grief only steal them to the

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journey ahead today the frontier is

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space and the boundaries of human

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knowledge sometimes when we reach for

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the stars we fall short but we must pick

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ourselves up again and press on despite

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the pain our nation is indeed fortunate

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that we can still draw on immense

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reservoirs of courage character and

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fortitude that we're still blessed with

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heroes like those of the space shuttle

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Challenger dick Scobee knew that every

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launching of a space shuttle is a

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technological miracle and he said if

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something ever does go wrong I hope that

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doesn't mean the end to the space

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shuttle program every family member I

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talked to ask specifically that we

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continue the program but that is what

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their departed loved one would want

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above all else we will not disappoint

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them today we promise dick Scobee and

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his crew that their dream lives on but

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the future they worked so hard to build

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will become reality the dedicated men

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and women of NASA have lost seven

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members of their family still they too

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must forge ahead with a space program

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that is effective safe and efficient but

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bold and committed man will continue his

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conquest of space to reach out for new

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goals and ever greater achievements that

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is the way we shall commemorate our

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seven challenger heroes dick Mike judi l

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ron Gregg and Christa your families in

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your country mourn your passing we bid

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you goodbye

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we will never forget you for those who

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knew you well and loved you the pain

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will be deep and enduring a nation to

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will long feel the loss of her seven

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sons and daughters 47 good friends we

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can find consolation only in faith for

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we know in our hearts that you who flew

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so high and so proud now make your home

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beyond the stars safe in God's promise

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of eternal life may God bless you all

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and give you comfort in this difficult

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you please rise and join in the singing