On the recordMarch 29, 2022
Dammit, I am going to miss my friend Don Young. My other close friend, Representative Higgins and I, we sat next to him pretty much every single day for nearly the last 6 years, and I can tell everybody that for every story that you have heard about bears and bear traps and snowshoeing and dog sledding and Iditarods and eagles and hunting and everything else that you heard about him, there are a dozen stories that you have not heard but you wish you heard. They were that good. He was resilient. He was a mountain of a man, as you have heard from everybody. He was a fearless friend, and the only thing that he loved more than his country and his State of Alaska was his family and his wife, Anne, and that all encompassed just one of the most incredible men I have ever had the honor of knowing. My friend, Don Young, we are going to miss you, and may you rest in peace, my friend.
