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    THE PATRIOT

    Feb 11, 2020 3 minutes
    —Bill Hogan, Editor

    ven well into his 80s, Felix de Weldon, the Austrian-born sculptor who created the Marine Corps War Memorial near Arlington National Cemetery, carried with him a copy of the speech he delivered when he became a U.S. citizen in 1943. “No other country,” he had said that day, “can compare with these United States; the friendliness, generosity, and warmth of its people; its ideals and its traditions; and its laws.” At the

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