Image source, Getty ImagesVice President JD Vance has thanked President Donald Trump as he delivers a speech on USS Kearsarge in New York City.
He says the US celebrates 250 years of “American daring and American naval excellence”.
“Today we celebrate 250 years of America, facing the future without fear. We celebrate 250 years of proving what a free people can achieve,” he says.
Vance pays tribute to the US’ sailors, police officers, emergency workers as well as the dozens of Navy chiefs who are visiting the country from around the world.
He then proceeds to read the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self evidence that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights and among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Vance says that 250 years later these words remind US citizens who they are as a people, noting that the words still carry tremendous power.
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