At the poet John Ingalls expressed it. in the democracy of the dead. all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. In those days of combat. it did not matter who our fellow defenders were. And so it is now in our homage to them. It makes no difference whether they were native sons or the foreign born. whether they were white or black or brown. gentiles or Jews. Protestants or Catholics. In the final analysis. all that has ever counted is the fact that they were Americans and that they gave their lives in the defense of our homes and of our ideals of freedom.
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