Announcement Speech

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nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn thank you thank

you thank you nnnnn thank you nnnnn thank you very much wow

nnnnn motion it is a long way from a little brick ranch house on second street i

hope arkansas to the white house nnnnn but here in this small town called hope i

was raised to believe that where a person started didn't mean that where he had to stop i

always believed that a kid could go from hope to higher ground nnnnn

unlike a lot of americans i grew up in a small town that was far removed from the power of the money launched

runs this kind but power and money and political influence have left a lot of americans lagging behind they

work hard they lift heavy things and they swept through their clothes grinding out a living but

dad was an educated man but he was a smart man and he had my mother didn't have a whole lot but they had honesty to the bone and

i taught my sister and me the basic lesson of life that we were to do unto others as we would have you

and us nnnnn it was here in hope that i learned how to swim how

to ride a bike how to read how to work and how to play fair i learned the difference between right and

wrong and i learned that god loves me as much as he loves anyone but that he doesn't love some more

than others nnnnn i learned about america in

miss mary's kindergarten as well as it were what elementary school i learned the pledge of allegiance the

i spend a lot of hours with both i got my first b. b. gun at age five it was a a daisy model twenty five i

still got it it's in mint condition i learned the basic rules of gun safety and i never thought about using another

someone i read iran trot lines all knighted boat are click with my dad and grandfather so catfish

the we'd freeze and we live off off for weeks and it was here that i was baptized in the garret memorial baptist church after

accepting jesus in a vacation bible school when i was just ten years old nnnnn

i truly win from hope the higher ground it was here then i met the girl who would become my wife of forty one years and

give me three children and share what will soon b. five grandchildren now we knew each other from elementary school and

in that job will not only pay my way through school but it would give me toward by household jones the station manager and