THE
PEOPLE OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA PRESENT THIS BELL TO
THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CELEBRATION
OF THE AMERICAN BICENTENNIAL JUBILEE AND IN COMMEMORATION
OF CENTURY OF FRIENDSHIP AND TRUST BETWEEN OUR TWO PEOPLES.
THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES HAVE BUILT UPON THE
FOUNDATION OF THEIR PIONEER SPIRIT AND ASPIRATION FOR
INDEPENDENCE, A FREE AND PROSPEROUS NATION ON A NEW
CONTINENT.
THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS SERVE AS AN IMPETUS AND INSPIRATION FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF ALL MANKIND. THE TRADITIONAL AMITY BETWEEN OUR
TWO PEOPLES HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED UPON THIS SHARED FAITH IN FREEDOM
AND INDEPENDENCE WHEN KOREA SUFFERED UNDER THE YOKE OF FOREIGN
RULE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES CAME FORWARD AS ENCOURAGING
FRIENDS WITH THE VICTORY OF THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR II,
KOREA’S UNFLAGGING PATRIOTIC STRUGGLE FINALLY ATTAINED
THE GOAL OF NATIONAL LIBERATION.
IN STRIVING TO PRESERVE FREEDOM, THE UNITED STATES AND THE REPUBLIC
OF KOREA ARE INSEPARABLE ALLIES LINKED BY TIES FORGED IN BLOOD.
THIS IS A FRATERNITY OF MUTUAL TRUST WHICH SHALL REMAIN FOREVER
UNCHANGED.
MAY THIS BELL RING AND SOUND FORTH THE HOPE AND RESOLVE OF OUR
TWO NATIONS IN THEIR COMMON DEVOTION TO ENDURING PROSPERITY,
LIBERTY AND PEACE.
