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Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan’s 2016 Veterans Day Message

City of Clarksville - Clarksville, TNClarksville, TN – I’m honored to serve as Mayor of the City of Clarksville, the home of Fort Campbell and a large number of military veterans.

On Veterans Day, we honor all who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces and their family members. We take time to remember their dedicated service and the sacrifices they have made.

Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan
Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan

I want to say to all of Clarksville’s veterans, to every active duty soldier, Guardsman, Reservist, and to every veteran of any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces:

Whether you fought the enemy at Inchon in Korea, Khe Sanh in Vietnam, in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, or at Mosul in Iraq; or whether during your military service you battled to deliver supplies, or to build a bridge, or to provide logistical support, or worked in a military hospital; you are part of an unbroken chain of men and women who have served this country with honor and distinction.

On behalf of a proud and grateful City of Clarksville, I say thank you.

We thank all who have followed in the footsteps of generations of fine Americans who have served in the Armed Forces here and abroad to defend our freedoms and our American way of life.

We also thank the family members of soldiers. We know you have lived through difficult times and often taken on a heavy load to keep the home fires burning.

We thank our local Veterans Service Organization and other groups for the extraordinary work  they do for our nation’s heroes.

While it is always fitting to remember those service members who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained in war, that is the specific purpose of Memorial Day, which we celebrate in May.

Veterans Day, and this is an important distinction, is the day set aside to thank and honor all those who served honorably in the military — in wartime or peacetime. Veterans Day is largely intended to thank living veterans for their service.

So join me today in acknowledging all veterans and their contributions to our national security, and we underscore the fact that all those who served have sacrificed and done their duty.

We thank you for the courage it takes to protect America and to defend honor, duty and country.

God bless you and your families. God bless our troops. God bless Clarksville, and God bless America.

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