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Well, first, let me thank

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each and every one of you for your
incredible service to your agency,

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to the Department of Homeland Security
and to the nation.

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You know, I know the last
18 months in particular has been unusually

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difficult for all of you
and for all of your families.

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But I want to thank you personally,
because you have allowed the rest of us

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to live our lives, to live our lives
in the way that we choose

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to be able to worship, where we choose

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to be able to build lives and families
and take care of our kids

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and do the sort of things
that we as Americans always hope to do.

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It is because you have done your job
and done it exceedingly well.

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You know, to paraphrase Winston Churchill,

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"never have so many owed so much to so few."

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So on behalf of one of these,
you know, folks that

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has had the opportunity to live the life
that you have been protecting.

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I want to thank you.

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Thank each and every one of you
for your service. Thanks.