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- Good afternoon.

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I come for my father,

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Steven Domitrovich, and
I am here on his behalf.

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I remember my father telling me proudly

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the story of Malmedy.

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He always told me how nice

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the people Malmedy were to him.

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He remembered how
Lieutenant-Colonel Joachim Peiper

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of the SS looked at him,
as he walked the line.

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My father handed him his
Geneva Convention Card

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but Colonel Peiper tore
the Geneva Convention Card

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in half. And said (german word).

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My father looked at his friend
as they stood in the snow,

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and cold, knowing that death was near.

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As the guns opened fire,
he lay in the snow,

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playing dead, as SS troopers shot

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his wounded comrades.

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My father said a prayer to
the blessed virgin Mary,

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and told her how his own
mother would be disappointed,

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if he did not make it home for Christmas.

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He never forgot

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his fallen comrades

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and now, his spirit has
returned to this hallowed place,

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through me, to be reunited
with his comrades,

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and the people of Malmedy,
who saved him, 75 years ago.

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Thank you.

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(clapping)