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Obama Delivers State of the Union Address


President Obama ended his State of the Union speech Tuesday with a tribute to U.S. troops and veterans of war, and a pledge to ensure they receive the benefits they deserve.

He highlighted in particular the experience of one soldier nearly killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, and who is still working to recover.

President Obama said men and women like that soldier -- Cory Remsburg -- remind the nation that "America has never come easy."

But for more than 200 years, he said, the nation has put its mistakes and frustrations aside to push for progress -- "to create and build and expand the possibilities of individual achievement; to free other nations from tyranny and fear" and "to promote justice and fairness and equality under the law."

And he closed with a statement of unity: that the nation Americans want for their kids is within reach, if everyone works together.
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