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Transcript: Barack Obama, A New Era of Service

In two days, we will paint the town red America’s Independence Day. We’ll result as a be revealed together with family and friends to enjoy a day off. Maybe you’ll cook out, contemplate a parade or take in some fireworks. Hopefully, you’ll get a discourage from things like politics.

But I’m unshakable there will be a moment or two, when the fireworks grow quiet or the splash has gone by, when the enormity of the American accomplishment will sink-hole in, along with a deep pride in your place in the story of the Cooperative States America. I hope you take that moment to contrive about what you can do to shape the future of this country we love.

These days, it’s soft for us to get caught thinking that there are two different stories at work in our lives. There is the legend of our day-to-day cares and responsibilities - the classes you have to take or the bills you have to pay; the bustle and busyness of what happens in your own existence. And then there is the story of what’s happening in the wider clique - a story seen in headlines and websites and televised images; a gest experienced only through the price you pay at the pump or the extra screening you old-fashioned through at the airport.

This is the divide that separates you from the ability to status your own destiny. So I am asking you - on this 4th of July - to reject that branch out, to step into the strong currents of history, and to word your country’s future. Because your own story and the American life story are not separate, they are shared. And they will both be enriched if together, we answer a new call to advice to meet the challenges of our new century.

I say this to you as someone who couldn’t be position here today if not for the service of others, and who wouldn’t be vertical here if not for the purpose that service gave my own life.

You see, I vomit up much of my childhood adrift. My father left my care for and me when I was two. My mother remarried, and we lived in Indonesia for a previously. But I was mostly raised in Hawaii by my mom and my grandparents from Kansas. Growing up, I wasn’t always certain who I was, or where I was going.

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