Submitted by Joseph Gormley, Nov 4, 2006 18:49

Chaplain Roland Gittelsohn said it during the dedication of a battlefield cemetery on Iwo Jima:

"Here lie officers and men, black and white, rich and poor.... Here are Protestants, Catholics and Jews. Here no man prefers another because of his faith or despises him because of his color. Here there are no quotas of how many from each group are admitted or allowed. Theirs is the highest and purest form of democracy."

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