Cannons roared. brass bands played. all the ships in the harbor blew their whistles and rang their bells. She was that day a young symbol of an old but elusive dreamthe simple Ideal of "liberty." Tonight. 99 years later but forever young. she stands not only for that original ideal itself. but also as a symbol of what free people. guided and protected by that ideal. can achieve. For as soon as the cannons and the bands were silent. she began to see the ships slipping into the harbur with the first of the millions of immigrants she would welcome to America. Tonight she remembers those ships coming from Bremen and Liverpool and Naples. and the cargo they brought. Human beings seeking refuge and opportunity beneath her torch.
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