To their families, including the Gold Star families here tonight, know that we will never forget their sacrifice and that your loved ones live on in the soul of our nation -- now and forever.

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It's common in these circles to believe computers are becoming so much like people that, in another few decades, we will be able to download our consciousness into them and thus live forever.

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