如果没有他们对国家的服务，如果没有这些服务赋予我的人生目标，我今天就无法站在这里对你们说这些话。

I say this to you as someone who couldn't be standing here if it were not for the service of others, and wouldn't be standing here today if not for the purpose that service gave my own life.

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And if they didn't need to pay me, then I wouldn't have any income to put food on the table for my wife and children.

如果他们不雇我,我就没有任何收入,来养妻活儿

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