Trump: 'We Commemorate 250 Years Since The First American Patriots Fell On The Field Of Battle'

In his Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery, President Trump celebrated the soldiers who helped win independence for the U.S.

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00:00To you, this Memorial Day is especially significant as we commemorate 250 years

00:08since the first American patriots fell on the field of battle. Two and a half centuries ago

00:15at Lexington Green, Concord Bridge, Bunker Hill, brave Minutemen and humble farm boys

00:22became the first to give their lives for a nation that did not yet have a name.

00:30With their deaths, men like John Brown, 23, Samuel Hadley, 28 and Abner Hosmer, 21

00:39ignited the flame of liberty that now lights, the inspires everybody and the entire world.

00:51Those young men could never have known what their sacrifice would mean to us,

00:56but we certainly know what we owe to them. Their valor gave us the freest, greatest and most noble

01:04republic ever to exist on the face of the earth. A republic that I am fixing after a long and hard

01:11four years. That was a