In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind.

Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united under our common interest.

Perhaps it is chances that today is the 4th of July and we are once again fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, opression, or persecution...but from anhialation.

We fight for our right to live, to exhist.

And if we win the day, the fourth of July will no longer be known as just an American holiday but the day when the world came together in one voice and said, we will not go silently into the night.

We will not vanitsh without a fight.

We are going to live on.

We are going to survive.

Today we celebrate our independence day.