Jack Kingston: “I wanted to start out saying that there is a statement, I cannot quite get it right, but it states to the effect that…”

“I wanted to start out saying that there is a statement, I cannot quite get it right, but it states to the effect that men who have monuments built after them to honor them do not need monuments built after them to honor them because their achievements speak for themselves. Nothing could be truer for Mr. J.C. Lewis, Jr. His achievements have touched and reached thousands of lives in Savannah, Georgia, the State of Georgia, and the United States of America. He is truly a renaissance man, a modern day Cincinnatus, who goes and leads his community time and time again in cause after cause and then returns to his own business life or quietly takes a step offstage to avoid the applause. In fact, the bill today, Mr. Speaker, would not be here if the family had their wish; but I have known the Lewis family for some time, and I know the sons well enough to speak frankly, and I have told them despite their opposition because they do not really seek the limelight under any circumstances, to a person in the family, I said, we need to do this for your dad.”