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THERE AND 1IU6 CURATOR REPLIED. 'SIR. MMY COME Mm EVERY YEAR THIS SAME TIME. THEY COME TO PAY THE18 RESPECTS TO GENERAL PATTMP .AND TO HIS MEN WHO LIRBRATSD THEW FROM DAM ON APRIL 29. 1945. TIM AMERICANS swarm LISSBAT80 TER NAZI CONCENTRATIONS CAVO' IN DACHAU. GERIANT WHERE TEN OF THOUSANDS OF MEN..WOMEN ,AND —UREH WERE TA14+F BY THE NAZIS TO BE TORTURED TO BE STAR= TO BE.BEAT= AND TO HE MUBDEBFO SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY WERE JEWS AND COULD NOT BR MEMBER8 OF TRE MASTER RACE. IT IS HARD TO INAGINE SUCK HORRORS WOULD TARE PLACE. BUT WE KNOW THAT IT WAS TRUE. TROSR SURVIVORS THROUGHOUT` TBR MANY YEARS PLACING WREATHS OH MM GRAVES OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO NAD LIBERATED THE FROM THE CONCENTRATION CAMP AND SO WE ARE HERE TODAY TO PAY RESPECTS TO THESE NEN AND WOMEN, AND TRE VETERANS OF THESE UNITED STATES WHO BY THEIR SACRIFICE AND MANY BY THESE SUPREME SACRIFICE WHO NAVR SERVED FORTH$ PRESERVATION OF THE LIBERTIES AND RED TYRANNY THROUGH= TRE WORLD. VETERANS OF AMERICA WE SALUTE YOU - AND IT IS ON THIS DAY PROPER MAT WE RECALL THE HISTORY•OF VETERANS, THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED AND TO THOSE WHO HAVE MARCHED THE FREEDOM TEAR. THE SPIRIT OF TBR AMERICAN VETERANS AND THE MARCH OF THE FREEDOM TRAIL COULD HAVE EASILY BEGUN IN BOSTON'S HARBOR IN THE SPRING OF 1774, WHERE PAUL REVERE HAD TO FEUD HIS HORSE FORTY MILES THROUGH SWAMP AND RUGGED TERRAIN TO WARN THS COLONIST THAT TEE RED COATS WHERE CONING. OUR FORE FATHERS HAD LEFT TTEIR HOMES AND MOVED TO A NEW WORLD SEEKING FREEDOM AND THE RIGHT TO GOVERN THEMSELVES AND THIS LIZEM WAS BEING ATTACKED AND THEIR FREEDOM ENDANGERED. THOSE PATRIOTS STOOD AT THE RR=GE AT CONCORD AND STOOD AT LEXINGTON AND IF WE CAN LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF HISTORY WE CAN BEAR TRS SHOT THAT WAS NF.ARD AROUND TRE WORLD. •WE HONOR THOSE PATRIOTS AT IIIS HOUR. ' ,OVER 200 YEARS AGO IN A SMALL VIIJAGE IN VIRGINIA. COLONIAL -XILL►AMSBURG. .OUR FELLOW CODMTRYMEX AND PATRIOTS MET TO END TYRANNY AND OPPRESSION AND TBE SEEDS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION .WERE PLANTED AND IF WE CAN LISTER INTO 72M PAST WE CAN HEAR THE ,IIUMDRTAL WORDS. -GIVE ME LEEM7Y OR GIVE HE DEATH". WE HONOR -*THOSE PATRIOTS THAT FOUGHT AT VALLEY FORGE AND OUR REVOLUTIONARY WAR TO PROCLAIM THAT LIBER=. :A MEW NATION WAS TO BE BORN AND SEVERAL YEARS LATER MEN OF COURAGE, MEN OF GOD, PROCLAIMED TBR BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND DID ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THE CONSTITUTION OF THESE UNITED STATED. GEORGE WASHINGTON TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE AS TBR FIRST PRESIDENT, A LEADER OF A NEW NATION. A NATION BORN ON THE PRINCIPALS OF TRE DIGNITY OF MAN, CONCEIVED ON THE DECLARATION THAT KLINDLSD THE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THAT ALL MEN An CREATED EQUAL WITH INALIENABLE RIGHTS, A CONSTITUTION CREATING A NATION OF LAW, NOT MEN, A NATION BORN BY THOSE SEM1M FREEDOM. SO IT MAYBE COINCIDENTAL BUT HOW FITTING AND PROPER THAT WE CELEBRATE AND THAT WE DEDICATE THIS BEAUTIFUL BUILDING THIS DAY, NOVEMBER 11TH, VETERAN'S DAY FOR TIM SACRIFICES MADE BY TBS MEN AND WOMEN WE HONOR THIS DAY GIVE TRUE MEANING TO WHAT THIS BUILDING REPRESENTS. A NATION OF LAW, NOT MEM AND TO THOSE THAT ENTER HERE, NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW AND ALL ARE EQUAL BEFORE. LT. AS YOD ENTER ncro THIS BEAUTIFUL BUILDING LST OS RECALL THE PICTURE OF THAT LADY WHO WILL GUARD ITS ENTRY. A LADY BEAUTIFULLY DRESSED. STANDING ERECT WITH ARMS STRETCHRL WITH THE SCALES OF JUSTICE, AND SHE IS SLIlIDFOLDED. SHE IS BLIND TO THOSE THAT ESTER. FOR SHE WILL KNOW NO RACE, SHE WILL KNOW NO BSLIGION, NO MIX, NO -RATIONAL ORIGIN. NO ECONOMIC STATUS.. NO AGE. NO HANDICAP. HER WILL CUM THIS BUILDING SO THOSE THAT ENTER WILL RECEIVE HOTS LESS NOR NOTHING MORE THAN EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW. LIKEWISE, an FINE LADY OF JUSTICE WILL REMIND mum OF DS WHO WORK HERE OF OUR DUTIES AND OUR EESPGHSIDISSTffi. TO THE JUDGES SES WILL US OF OUR GATES TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LAW AND TO THE CONSTITUTION AND TO BE PATIENT AND DIGNIFIED AND COURTEOUS TO ALL LITIGANTS. JURORS, WITNESSES, LAWYERS AND ALL WHO WE DEAL WITH. SHE WILL REMIND OFFICERS OF THE COURT. TIM LAWYERS OF YOM GAIN TO SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE COHSTITOT'XON OF THESE UNITED SLATES AND THIS STATE AND TO BE CONSISTENT WI'r8 TIM AND BUNCH. FOR THOSE THAT ENTER, OUR FORE FATHERS SO GRACIOUSLY EMBEDDED WITHIN THE DECLARATION RIGHTS OF OUR CONSTITUTION THAT THIS EOILDINC SHALL BE OPEN TO EVERY PERSON FOR BEGBESE OF ANY INJURY AND JUSTICE SEALS BE A24MSMM WITHOUT SALE, DENIAL OR DELAY. FOR THOSE THAT ENTER, THIS IS YOUR BUILDING. THIS IS MORE THAN A COURTHOUSE, THIS IS THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE AND AS WE DEDICATE THIS BUILDING, I AN REMINDED OF AN OLD STORY WHICH MANY OF YOU MAY HEARD AND I THINK WORTH REPEATING ON THIS OCCASION. A WORKER IS LAYING STONE ON A BUILDING WHICH IS UNDRE CONSTRUCTION AND A PASSERBY STOPS AND SEES THE WORKER AND HE SAYS TO LIN. "WHAT ARE YOU 11013137" AND TIM STONE LAYER STOPS AND LOOKS AT MM PASSERBY AND HE GRACIOUSLY LOOKS UIP TO TME EMPTR SET AND HE LOOKS RACE TO THE PERSON AND HE SAYS. 'CAN'T YOU SEE. CAN'T YOU SER, I AN RE[ ING TO BUILD A CATHEDRAL". AND ON THIS DAY TO THOSE ASSEMBLED. THOSE WHO HAVE TOILED TO MAK$ THIS BUILDING POSSIBLE. AS WR cumRATR AND DEDICATE THIS BEAUTIFUL BUILDING, YOU CAN ASE, WHAT MAS SEEN BUILT! WE CAN ALL STEP HACK TOGETHER AND LOOK AT THIS BUMI NG AND WE CAN LOOK IIP INTO THE SKY AND WE CAN SHE THAT LADY OF JUSTICE. BEAUTIFUL AS SUM IS. STRETCHED OUT INTO HER ARKS THE SCALE OF JUSTICE, BLINDFOLDED AND SEEING US AS ONE PEOPLE COMMITTED TO A NATION OF LAW NOT MEN AND AS SHE SPEAKS SHS WOULD SAY TO EACH OF IIS. "CAN'T YOU SEE, CAN'T YOU SEE. YOU HAVE A TEMPLE OF JUSTICE." Commissioner Bird thanked Judge Smith on behalf of the Board for very ably filling in at the ceremonies. Judge Smith expressed his pleasure and congratulated the Board on the magnificent new courthouse. He advised that Attorney Eugene O'Neill has written, at the request of the Bar, an accurate history of the courts and judicial system in Indian River County. 3 November 15, 1994 BOOK 93 PACE1 3'