Andrew P. Hunter: “Joe Foss, as the gentleman said, was inspirational to so many young people. He was born in 1915 in South Dakota and…”

“Joe Foss, as the gentleman said, was inspirational to so many young people. He was born in 1915 in South Dakota and helped to run the family farm. In fact, he had to drop out of college to do that. But when he was 11 years old in South Dakota he got to meet Charles Lindbergh, and it was that inspiration and meeting the guy who had flown across the Atlantic and was such an American hero at that time that inspired him to himself become an aviator. So this is a great family of aviators that we have, and Joe, again, won the Medal of Honor. He shot down some 24 aircraft.”