Jack Kingston: “As we approach Memorial Day, I think there are two things that we can keep in mind. One is, we should remember in our…”

“As we approach Memorial Day, I think there are two things that we can keep in mind. One is, we should remember in our memorial to our war dead that they were kids themselves. The people who fought so hard for our freedom and sacrificed their lives, they were yet kids themselves, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 years old; very, very young people. We should also remember that they were hometown. There is not a county or city in America that we cannot go to that did not have people who died in World War II. In most towns, they had somebody who died in Vietnam, North Korea, World War I, or any one of other conflicts that have been fought in the name of freedom around our country. As we do this, keep in mind that they were young, and that they were our neighbors and friends. What we need to do in honoring them is to get this monument built.”