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Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin said the U.S. is at a crossroads and Americans must be resilient in the face of increasing adversity during a speech to the "Restore Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday.

Rally organizer Glenn Beck has said the event is not political but meant to honor America's military service members and veterans. Beck said he asked Palin to speak as the mother of a U.S. soldier. Palin's son Track is a soldier in U.S Army and has served in Iraq. 

"I've been asked to speak today not as a politician, no something more, much more. I've been asked to speak as the mother of a soldier, and I'm proud of that distinction. You know, say what you want to say about me but I raised a combat vet, and you can't take that away from me," Palin said.

"No woman gives birth thinking she will hand over her child to her country, but that's what mothers have done from ancient days."

Palin called the setting "the symbolic crossroads of our nation's history" and invoked Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. during a patriotic speech littered with biblical language.

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