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BOOK c) f'AGE'7 �4 RR 0al 111 `i01D1: U ENROI" Judge Sherman Smith presented the Board with the speech prepared by Judge L. B. Vocelle (who was unable to deliver it due to recent surgery) for the Veteran's Day Parade and Courthouse Opening Ceremonies, held November 11, and asked that it be made part of the record and copies be made available to the public. ON MOTION by Commissioner Adams, SECONDED by Commissioner Bird, the Board unanimously (4-0, Commissioner Eggert absent) approved making the speech part of the permanent records of the Board of County Commissioners. EOR. CHAIRMAN TIPPIN, COLOSM AUSTIN. METERS OF THE CLEBOY, PUBLIC OFFICIALS. FELLOW MEMBERS OF TEM JUDICIARY. MEMBERS OF THE BAR,, OUR DISTINGUISHED GUESTS, FELLOW CITIZENS, FEUM VETERANS. HISTORY .TELLS DS THIS DAY NOVEMBER 11TH IS A DAY* OF CELEBRATION, A DAY WHEREIN TIM WAR TO ERD ALL WARS WAS ITSELF ENDED, AN ARMISTICE WAS SIGNED AND WORLD WAR I CAME TO AN PSD. THIS DATE WAS SO DESIGNATED ARMISTICE DAY AND THE MORNING HM. OF 11:00 BECAME A HOLY NOON BECAUSE IT WAS AT THAT NODE THAT SITTER CONFLICT BRIED AND AS WAS STATER TO THE WORLD A WAR TO END ALL WARS. THS VETERANS OF TEAT WAR. WORLD WAS I. HONOR US WITH TIMM PRESENCE TODAY. BUT HISTORY TELLS US THE END WAS HOT TO BE. LESS IBM TERES. DECADES LATER THERE WOULD BE THOSE WHO WOULD VIOLATE THE ROLE OF LAW AND INOSE TYRANNY ON OTHERS. THAT. TYRANNY WOULD NOT AND DID NOT END. CHILDREN OF TMESE VETERANS WERE TO RETURN TO T= SAME SOIL AND TO ENGAGE IN ANOTHER SIDODY CONFLICT AND TO AGAIN RESTORE THE RULE OF LAW AND TO EMD TYRANNY. AND SO ON THIS DATE. OVER SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO AN ARMISTICE TO END ALL WARS WAS ENTERED, IT WAS NOT TO BE AND THE VETERANS WE HON0R TODAY WHERE CALLED HNTO OTHER CONFLICTS AND SO IT IS FITTING AND PROPER THAT OUR NATION STOP AND PAY IBM= TO ALL OF THE VETERANS OF'THIS GREAT REPUBLIC AND WE DO SO AT THIS HOUR. FACE OF US AS VETERANS REPRESENTED A PARTICULAR MILITARY GD'PFIT. NO A PARTICULAR ASSIGNMENT AND TOO MANY CONFLICTS, BATTLES AND 2 November 15, 1994 SCARS OF WAS. AND TO ALL OF US MEMORIES. MEMORIES OF SERVIIiO TBROUC.HOUT TSE WORLD. VETERANS SERVING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.. NOT TO CONQUER =I TO END TYRANNY AND TO LIBERATE THOSE WHO, BY DICTATE OF OTHERS. HAD LOST THEIR FREEDOM AND LISERTIBSS. I AN SEM7NDED OF A I= STORY ABOUT TIE LIBERATION OF THOSE FROM BONDAGE. A FEW YEARS AGO A FRIMM OF MINE VISITED EUROPE, HE HAD SEEM IS THE EUROPEAN THEATER AHD HE VISITED BECAUSE HE WAHTP.D TO REFLECT THE MEMORIES OF THE PAST. HE VISITED THE REACHES OF NORMAND3Y WHEN FIFTY YEARS AM THIS YEAR WE CELEBRATED THE ALLIES LANDING TO LZSFSATE EUROPE FROM TYRANNY. HE VISITED THE TOWN OF LWMMOUED, WHICH IS NESTED IN NORTHERN EUROPE, BETWEEN BELGIUM, FRANCE AND GERMANY AND TO THE NORTHWEST OF THAT CITY LAY AN AMERICAN CE[ETFEY. MOST OF TNM MEN BURIED THERE GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE AND AS HE ENTERED IT WAS IMMACULATE. GRASS NEATLY NO=. GRAVES NEATLY MARKED LISTING THE NAME. RANK AND SERIAL LUTHER, DATE OF DRAIN OF THOSE AMERICAN SOLDIERS LYING BENEATH TAE SOD AND AS HE GLANCED ACROSS THE GRAVES HE COULD SFS CROSSES MID AN OCCASIONAL. STAR OF DAVID. HE SAID THEA: WAS A LOW RISE AND OH TOP OF THAT A HIGH RISS VMM HE SAW A GROUP OF PEOPLE ALL ELDERLY. MANY IN VXMX HAIBS, MANY USING CANES AND AS HE APPROACHED HE SAW THAT TERY WERE LAYING BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS MDI WREATHS AND THEY GATHERED AROUND A PARTICULAR GRAVE MID AS HE APPROACHED HE SAW THE GRAVE OF GEORGE S. PATTON, C@OWMM OF TBS THIRD ARMY. MARRED WITS A SIMPLE CROSS AND REST= EMWATE THE SOIL WITH HIS MEN. HE ASKED THE CURATOR WHAT THESE PEOPLE WEBS DOING THAT WERE GATHERED