While our flesh gets replenished as cells die and are replaced, the enamel of our teeth is made only once, and at very specific times in our lives.

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They bring us comfort in good times and, perhaps especially, in difficult times in our own lives and in the life of our nation.

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We memorialize those who gave their lives on the battlefields of our times -- from Normandy to Manila, Inchon to Khe Sanh, Baghdad to Helmand, and in jungles, deserts, and city streets around the world.

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