Given my background, my politics, and my professed values and ideals, there will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough.

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They are my go-to set of ideals that I draw on constantly, and that help guide us as we grow, change, hire and make all the big and small decisions required each week in our business.

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Like him I, too, continually wonder at the moral law within me, which dictates my conduct, or perhaps I ought to say the ideals of conduct, which I wish I could fulfill.

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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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As I reflect on this, I see how the American story is in many ways my story -- a country still trying to negotiate its own identity, caught between the paradise of its founding ideals and the realities of its history, trying to figure it out, trying to "become" even today -- the word hope as fresh on our tongues as it ever was.

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