Memorial Day
Peter Mills’ Memorial Day speech: Remember Us.

On this Memorial Day please take the time to remember and honor our veterans. Remembering makes us all better citizens. Remembering the sacrifices of the dead helps us more freely to contribute our own services when we are called upon, often in smaller ways: to serve on a jury, to pay taxes, to join a school board, to be a town selectman or a county commissioner, to serve on a planning board or in the legislature.

John McCain is fond of saying: “Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause greater than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.”