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Memorial Day Message from Rep. Scott Holcomb

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Date: May 28, 2012 9:58:05 AM EDT To: Subject: Memorial Day Message from Rep. Scott Holcomb Reply-To: info@georgiademocrat.org Few holidays impact me as much as Memorial Day.  As one of my friends who is a veteran said so well, "Memorial Day isn't when we remember what we won.  It's when we remember what we lost." For the last several days, I've been remembering the fallen.  I started by recalling the first time the meaning of this holiday really hit home.  It was after I had enlisted in the Air National Guard and I was driving with my father.  It was very late, well after midnight, and as we were about to exit he asked me to drive a little farther.  Minutes later, we pulled up to a Vietnam Veterans Memorial. We got out of the car and sat down on a bench a few meters from the V sculpture engraved with names.  My father had served in Vietnam and I was born while he was overseas, but we had never talked about what happen...