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DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse - Video: .@SECWAR “By their decisions and actions in that faraway land during our battle against communism, James Capers, Jr., and John Ripley proved that the breed of patriot who stood at Lexington and Concord and on the banks of the Delaware River did not die out.
And those kinds of patriots still guard for us today.
To the two Marines we salute today—you carried our flag with honor and you will wear that medal with PRIDE.
You embodied the Marine ethos, Semper Fidelis. MAY GOD BLESS OUR GREAT NATION."
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DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse - Video: .@SECWAR “When the hour of darkness came upon these two Marines, and the wicked were all around them, they did not turn back.
They did not look for an easy way out—THEY PRAYED.
They saw their duty. They went forward—and found their way out.”
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DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse - Video: .@SECWAR "In those terrible, magnificent moments that we recall here today, the fellow warriors of then-Lieutenant Capers and then-Captain Ripley bore witness to a truth that no totalitarian ideology can ever suppress:
THE FREE MAN IS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD... AND HIS HIGHEST DESTINY IS LOVE, EXPRESSED THROUGH SACRIFICE FOR HIS FELLOW MAN."
https://x.com/DOWResponse/status/2067980724930572552

DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse - Video: .@SECWAR just told the story of Medal of Honor recipient John Ripley: