Political Quotes

“at the tender age of 23, Lt. Clyde Adair Tucker, Jr., paid the ultimate price for the cause of freedom when he was killed during Operation Leader on October 4, 1943. On that fateful day, his plane was shot down off the coast of Bodo, Norway. He and his crewman, Stephen Bakran, remained with the aircraft in 160 feet of water until the summer of 1990, when members of a local scuba diving club found them. It took 2 years for the Norwegians to recover parts of the aircraft and Lieutenant Tucker's and Bakran's remains. On October 4, 1993, Clyde A. Tucker III, a Birmingham, AL, area resident and businessman, and his family attended a memorial ceremony in Bodo, Norway, honoring his father and Stephen Bakran, 50 years to the day after their plane was downed. On March 28, 1994, Lieutenant Tucker's remains were buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Clyde A. Tucker, Jr., was born in Greenwood, MS, on September 23, 1920. He attended Louisiana College in Pineville and was commissioned on his 21st birthday in 1941. His background and circumstances were representative of those of millions and millions of other young people at that time who faced the terror of fighting in a global war. But it is during perilous times like this that the most ordinary of citizens show extraordinary courage and conviction. So it was with Lieutenant Tucker; he never expected more than he received, yet always gave more than was expected.”