Kelly Cooper, AZCD4, Caring for our Veterans

"And so we push forward, making sure that we are carrying forward the best interest of all the people in this nation, specifically veterans tonight because, without them, where are we really? Without our veterans that were willing to write that blank check — and some of them had that check cashed against them — we aren't where we are as a nation today. And it's important I think that all of us recognize that. I don't really want to be so somber about it, but it really is. many people have lost that connection, lost that understanding of that sacrifice. I remember sleeping on the side of a mountain in Okinawa, I remember being in places where nobody cared except my brothers and sisters — and for me, an infantry Marine, it was only brothers around me — but those are the only people that cared, and I think that we need to make sure that we repay that as a society and as a nation."