Office of Senior Class Representative Kevin Tracy
Class Representative Kevin Tracy

For Immediate Release
Date: 01-11-22

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REPRESENTATIVE TRACY: Good Afternoon. It's been quite a while since we had a Thanksgiving during a War. It's the first time for some families, who have brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, moms and dads in the military, will have to miss them at Thanksgiving. For others, who've had friends and relatives on active duty across the world, this isn't the first time it's happened, nor will it probably be the last. America cannot take vacations from protecting, and now fighting for, the peace and tranquility the world saw shattered on September 11th. These brave men and women all around the world do that for us and our peace loving allies around the world. For that I ask that you give them thanks this thanksgiving at the table with your family and friends with whom you celebrate.

We in the United States have so much we take take for granted and should be thankful for. That is what makes dinner this night so special, this dinner is in celebration of all those things. All of our personal freedoms and civil liberties others around the world may never be able to imagine.

In your own way, pray for those American servicemen and women around the world. Give thanks to the God you worship for the American way of life and the things we take for granted in it. Give thanks for everything you are thankful for in your own ways. Be thankful for your family, the Thanksgiving meal that others less fortunate might not be enjoying tonight. Give thanks that your friends and family present this evening could be there.

And I give one really big thank you to my Grandma Dolly for giving me the helmet, the bullet, and the many other things that she's given my sister and myself for the joy of spoiling us.

Thanks, grandma.