Political Quotes

“I rise today to speak on the life and legacy of my dear friend, the last surviving World War II Medal of Honor Recipient, West Virginian, and one of the last of the ``greatest generation,'' Woody Williams of Quiet Dell, WV. Before I begin today, I want to recognize members of Woody's family who are here today with us in the Gallery, and in recognizing all of them, I want to say thank you. Thank you for being here and thank you for sharing Woody all those years with me and Shelley and all of our West Virginians. We are here today to respect Woody's wishes of honoring all veterans and their families and to pay respects to our Nation's last living World War II Medal of Honor recipient. To the family, I want to say this: You are the legacy he was most proud of, all of you, and I am honored to welcome--Senator Capito, both of us, are welcoming you, which is Woody's legacy, still here, and thank you. But we are going to respect his wishes, and his wishes, basically, were honoring veterans and their families and to pay respects to the Nation's last living World War II Medal of Honor recipient. It has been 77 years since Woody Williams quieted those enemy machineguns on the sands of Iwo Jima, and while he is now sadly gone, the ideals that he lived by are not: the love of his family, his friends and his faith and service to country above all. GEN George Patton once said: It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.…”