US Presidency
1943

Another boy, from Kentucky, the son of a coal miner, was wounded when our troops first landed in North Africa six months ago. There is ( still ) another, from Illinois. He was a coal miner his father and two brothers are coal miners. He was seriously wounded in Tunisia while attempting to rescue two comrades whose jeep had been blown up by a Nazi mine. These men do not consider themselves heroes. They would probably be embarrassed if I mentioned their names over the air. They were wounded in the line of duty. They know how essential it is to the tens of thousands hundreds of thousands - and ultimately millions of other young Americans to get the best of arms and equipment into the hands of our fighting forces and get them there quickly. The fathers and mothers of our fighting men, their brothers and sisters and friends and that includes all of us are also in the line of duty the production line.