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The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release

August 02, 2010

Remarks by the President at Disabled Veterans of America Conference in Atlanta, Georgia

Hyatt Regency Hotel
Atlanta, Georgia

11:23 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Everyone, please have a seat. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Happy birthday! (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. Thank you. It is --

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Happy birthday!

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. It is a great honor and -- it is true, I will be 49 this week. (Laughter.) I have a lot more gray hair than I did last year. (Laughter.)

It is an extraordinary honor to be here. Thank you, Commander Barrera, for your kind introduction and for your lifetime of service, in the Marines in Vietnam --

AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Ooh-rah!

THE PRESIDENT: -- but also as a tireless advocate for your fellow disabled veterans. We are grateful to you. Thank you for everything that you’ve done. (Applause.)

I want to thank your great leadership team for welcoming me today: Chairman Ray Dempsey -- (applause.) Absolutely. Incoming commander Wally Tyson. (Applause.) National adjutant Art Wilson. (Applause.) Judy Hezlep of the DAV Auxiliary. (Applause.) And your outstanding Executive Director in Washington, Dave Gorman. (Applause.)

And I am pleased to be joined by a decorated Vietnam veteran, wounded warrior, and a lifetime member of the DAV -- my outstanding Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Ric Shinseki. (Applause.)

Disabled American Veterans, I valued your advice and counsel when I was a senator, when I co-sponsored the Post-9/11 GI Bill. You were one of the first veterans organizations that I called upon when I began my presidential campaign. (Applause.) And as President, it’s been my pleasure to welcome you to the White House -- to make sure America is serving our veterans as well as you’ve served us. (Applause.) And, most recently, to sign advanced appropriations into law so that veterans health care will never again be held hostage to the budget battles and the political games in Washington. (Applause.)

Now, there’s another visit I won’t forget. I was in the Oval Office expecting a visit from the DAV. And in comes Bobby carrying a baseball bat. (Laughter.) Now, it’s not every day that somebody gets past the Secret Service carrying a baseball bat. (Laughter.) You may have heard about this. It turns out it was a genuine Louisville Slugger -- (applause) -- a thank you for going to bat for our veterans on advanced appropriations.

So I’m grateful for that symbol of our partnership, and I’m proud of the progress we’ve achieved together. But as one of your outstanding DAV members from Illinois just reminded me, this is a promise I made during the campaign -- it was a promise made and it was a promise kept. (Applause.) And I intend to keep on keeping my promises to the veterans of America. (Applause.)

In the life of our nation, not every generation has been summoned to defend our country in its hour of need. But every generation to answer that call has done so with honor and with courage.

Among you are members of that generation that saved the world from fascism. I was honored to stand with our World War II vets at Normandy last year for the anniversary of D-Day. And this year, as we mark -- (applause) -- this year, as we mark the 65th anniversary of our victory in that war, we once again salute our veterans of the Second World War. (Applause.)

Others among you faced a brutal foe on a cold Korean Peninsula. This year, as we mark the 60th anniversary of that conflict, I will be proud to travel to the Republic of Korea in November to pay tribute to our veterans of the Korean War. (Applause.)

Many of you served in the jungles of Vietnam. (Applause.) You also served with honor, exemplary dedication and courage, but were often shunned when you came home. That was a national disgrace and it must never happen again. (Applause.) And that’s why we’re making sure our veterans from today’s wars are shown the respect and the dignity they deserve. (Applause.)

And whether you served in the Gulf to free a captive Kuwait or fought in the streets of Mogadishu or stopped an ethnic slaughter in the Balkans, you too are part of an unbroken line of service stretching across two centuries.

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