Obama’s Remarks at Boston Service

The New York Times provides the transcript of President Obama’s speech at an interfaith memorial service for the victims of the Boston attacks. Obama called upon the people of Boston to reclaim the city’s “state of grace”: “And so we come together to pray, and mourn, and measure our loss. But we also come together today to reclaim that state of grace — to reaffirm that the spirit of this city is undaunted, and the spirit of this country shall remain undimmed.” 

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