Joe Lieberman: “at a time when our country's security is challenged on so many fronts, there are those among us who lament that this…”

“at a time when our country's security is challenged on so many fronts, there are those among us who lament that this generation is too inward looking and too selfish to stand up to the task that has befallen them. But they are wrong. There are Americans, who, raised in a cold conflict with a foe now long past and used to the privilege of liberty and justice, still choose to define themselves by their service to their countrymen and to men and women the world over whom they have never met but for whose freedom they would lay down their lives in sacrifice. Army SSG Richard S. Eaton Jr. of Guilford, CT, was one such man, and it is in his honor that I rise to speak today. Sergeant Eaton, who was assigned to the Army's 323rd Military Intelligence Battalion, Fort Meade, was a mere 37 years old when he died in Ramadi, Iraq, on August 12 of this year. Of poor consolation to his family and friends is that Sergeant Eaton died while doing what he loved--soldiering in the service of his Nation.”