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Diego Gonzalez of Springvale served as an officer in the U. S. Navy.

Among the many memorable things Ben Franklin said or wrote is the line : “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

John F. Kennedy, too, spoke and wrote notable statements like: “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”

Great words can outlive their authors. And they are great because they find the core of the matters at hand, even when we who only hear or read them are not yet aware of the true depth contained in their phrases.

Abraham Lincoln, too,

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