from bunker hill to bellow woods, gettysburg to imo jima. each understood the price of freedom, and each shouldered that burden on our behalf. our veterans represent the best of america. you're the spine of america, not just the backbone. you're the spine of this country. all of us, all of us, owe you. so on veteran's day and every day we honor that great debt and commit ourselves to keeping a sacred obligation as a nation, to honor what you have done, we have many obligations to our children, to our elderly, to those truly in need. i have gotten in trouble way back when i was young senator for saying we only have one truly sacred obligation. we have many obligations, but one truly sacred obligation to properly prepare and equip those that we send into harm's way and care for them and their families when they are deployed and when they return home in is a life-time sacred commitment. it never expires. and for me and for jill and for the entire biden family it is personal. when beau was deployed to iraq after spending six months in kosovo, tr

together found that their fears and doubts were not so strong as their faith, and in national tryings like gettysburg, we memorialize the men on both sides who gave of themselves unreservedly for what they believed to be right. remember and be proud. >> we never really had a racial reckoning. the problem started first immediately after the war. if you want north and south to get together and get along again, you don't talk about causes and consequences. you talk about the mutual valor on that battlefield. >> why doesn't that confederacy, which only lasted four years, just go away? the racial reasons are paramount, but it also has do with this idea that the confederacy was a dissent. man, they went to the limit, and they deserve respect for all that courage. they claim after they lost that they were only reacting to the overreach of centralized federal power, and there's a kind of admiration for that still in our culture. ♪♪ >>> james mcgil settled this farm almost 200 years ago. i feel like i followed in his foot steps. my wife raised the children. i always ever worked. of course, the government