In return. America has adopted them. and we have benefited immeasurably from having provided them a home. They stood with us from our very founding. when we were all immigrants. at the signing of the Declaration of Independence. They fought in the Revolution to back it up. They have become our statesmen. our artists. our heroes. and our religious leaders. They have fought in great numbers in every war since the Indian wars. From the Pennsylvania Continentals. known to fellow revolutionary soldiers as the Line of Ireland. to F. Scott Fitzgerald. from the refugees of the potato famine to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. we are proud of them all. All year long they are among us. proud of being Americans. On March 17. they express their pride in being Irish. and. for the day. we all become a little bit Irish. too.
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