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As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.

In the exodus out of Iraq, we're seeing the effects of just leaving. We left before there was control of chemical weapons stockpiles, without a status-of-forces agreement. We left before the Sunni and Kurds we fought with and fought alongside with were stable, or without empowering them. We left on a political rhetoric.

We would like to see you departing peacefully.

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

People either leave or they stay.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.