Political Quotes

“my native State of Nevada has always honored the brave men and women who fight to defend our Nation's freedom. We have in Nevada a higher percentage of veterans than any other state except Alaska. We are fiercely proud of them, and we recognize that we owe them a tremendous debt. So today, on behalf of all Nevadans, I rise to honor the life and memory of Reuben Law, who died on New Year's Day in Carson City at the age of 106. He was a veteran of the First World War . . . one of 4.7 million who served in that conflict. He was the last surviving Nevada resident who served in that war . . . and one of fewer than 200 surviving World War I veterans in the Nation. Reuben Law grew up in Minnesota. He was working at a Ford plant in Minneapolis, assembling Model-T Fords, when he as a teenager enlisted in the Army. He almost died before he ever set foot in Europe. The great influenza epidemic of 1918 was raging, and the flu claimed the lives of more than 60 soldiers on the transport ship that carried him to France. But Reuben survived, and he served as an Army sergeant in eastern France in 1918 and 1919, transporting supplies and wounded soldiers to a military hospital. Reuben and some of his buddies celebrated the end of the war by piling into a truck and riding to the nearby town of Allerey. He would later recall that every girl they passed gave them a kiss, because everyone was so elated. World War I was a horrible, bloody conflict.…”