In one sense it is a somber moment. an occasion for sober reflection. For a survey of Baltic history recalls years of struggle. it recalls the inestimable hardship which scars the Baltic past. But today is also a celebration of our commitment to freedom and the brave Baltic people. Baltic peoples have known the brutality of two wars. and of two aggressors whose ruthlessness remains unparalleled in human experience. There have been the deportations. the uprooting of people whose fierce nationalism proved a threat to those who would attempt to subjugate them. The Estonian. Latvian. and Lithuanian peoples have borne a suffering unknown and perhaps incomprehensible to most Americans.
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