Orrin Hatch: “I share his grief and his concerns over how many of our young people have sacrificed their lives for all of us. There is…”

“I share his grief and his concerns over how many of our young people have sacrificed their lives for all of us. There is no question about it; these are heroes to all of us. As the son of parents who lost their only other son in the Second World War, I know a family's grief over such a devastating loss. We know what it is like to have a son missing in action and, whose remains were found 2 years later. Our family had to go through all of the pain, difficulty, grieving, and remorse. But all of that didn't take away the fact that my brother, Jesse Moreland Hatch, was a great hero like so many others who died in all of our wars, but in World War II in this particular case, and the 50,000-plus young men and women who died in Vietnam. These young people are doing the Lord's work. They deposed a tyrant that killed hundreds of thousands of his own people and threatened the whole Middle East, and, by his association with terrorists at war with us, threatened us. Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East.”