Memorial Day Message from Rep. Scott Holcomb
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...