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- Today was a prayer and a mass for peace

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celebrated by Pope Francis here

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at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery.

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It's the first ever event of a pope visiting an ABMC site.

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Sicily-Rome is one of 26 ABMC military cemeteries overseas.

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The pope traditionally shares a message of peace

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and this year for the first time in ABMC history

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he chose an ABMC site to come

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and again, looking out over 7,800 headstones,

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this is a perfect place I think to come and share

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a message of peace, a message of hope,

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a message to understand the cost of war.

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(organ music and singing)