A monument to the civilian dead of Iraq and Afghanistan would not only provide comfort to these young men but also signal to the world that our nation understands the costs of war.

纪念伊拉克和阿富汗死去的平民，不仅安抚了那些年轻人，也向全世界表明我们的国家理解战争的代价。

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Among the OECD members, the most developed 34 nations on earth, Mexico, principal feeder nation for U.S. schools, came in dead last in reading.

在经合组织成员国，地球上34个最发达国家中，墨西哥，美国学校的主要生源国，在阅读方面竟排在倒数第一位。

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A magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck Japan, causing a tsunami and wreaking devastation upon the island nation that has left more than 13,000 people dead and another 14,000 missing.

日本爆发的九级大地震及其引发的海啸在这个岛国肆意毁坏，造成了13000多人的死亡仍有14000多人下落不明。

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The holiday honors the memory of the nation's military dead.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people,for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

VOA: special.2009.11.12

And we are not a dead-beat nation.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds a News Conference

At least 77 people were killed in the wake of the U.N. announcement Saturday across the Middle Eastern nation Saturday, including 43 dead in the Damascus suburbs, the opposition group Local Coordination Committees (LCC) of Syria reported.

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When I hear some of these folks in the other party talk about a nation in decline, they are dead wrong.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House