We should talk about lifting these Americans out of poverty, because it is wrong to have 35 million people living in our country, living in poverty every single day.

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And I think, unfortunately, Katrina revealed that there's a gap between the ideal we have as a country and the reality that people are living every day in places like the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.

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Because, clearly, there are thousands of schmucks in America living this reality every single solitary day of our boring little non-celebratory lives.

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They may not be thinking every night about their oath, but they understand because they're living amongst people who have never understood freedom, and are living in an environment that reminds them every day of how lucky each of us is to be an American and how wonderful it is to serve this country.

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We have millions of Americans who are working hard every single day for minimum wage, living in poverty in America.

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And it is my fervent prayer that we may honor the memory of the fallen by living out those ideals every day of our lives, in the military and beyond.

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Every single day, in different ways, so many of you are living out your faith in service to others.

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By that point he had been creating YouTube videos for three years (they grew out of tutoring sessions with his cousin Nadia when he was living in Boston and she was in New Orleans), and they were garnering tens of thousands of views every day.

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In addition, they stressed that because our global village is growing more complex and competitive by the day, our ability to adapt to this environment will be vital in the future for every individual living on our planet.

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