State Senator Jim Tomes
Press Release:
Memorialize; preserve the memory of, commemorate. That’s the definition of what many Americans will do on Monday, May 31st, 2021 when they attend ceremonies across this great nation in honor of all those patriots who served in the military and died while in service to our country.
Most of those service members were young, and all of them belong to an elite group of comrades that we must never forget, nor allow anyone to disrespect.
Their courage and valor is a measure of people that God has blessed America with. Though the celebration of Memorial Day came as a result of the Civil War, I think of all those who died while serving in the Armed Forces, all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
As Americans, we all have a duty to not only be grateful to the brave warriors who have faced the life and death engagements of war, but an obligation to express that duty in the way we conduct our lives as citizens of our wonderful Country. We surely want those whom we memorialize on this day to be as proud of us as we are of them.
God Bless America,
Senator Jim Tomes
