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Bush honors military in Easter message

President Bush urged Americans observing Easter Sunday to remember others, particularly in the military, who are far from loved ones on a day "that beckons us homeward."
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President Bush walks from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Thursday, as he departed to spend the weekend at Camp David, Md.Ron Edmonds / AP
/ Source: The Associated Press

President Bush urged Americans observing Easter Sunday to remember others, particularly in the military, who are far from loved ones on a day "that beckons us homeward."

"I deeply appreciate the sacrifices that they and their families are making," Bush said Saturday in his radio address.

He added a special message for the U.S. troops who have been killed while serving their country.

"These brave individuals have lived out the words of the Gospel: 'Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,'" Bush said. "And our nation's fallen heroes live on in the memory of the nation they helped defend."