Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, spoke on the Senate Floor about the need to support our nation’s veterans.
 
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Tillis on thanking military families this Veterans Day:
“I want to take a minute to talk about the person who served but never wore the uniform, and that's the husband or the wife or the children that on this Veterans Day we should also thank. By virtue of being a military spouse, you served, as did your children. On this Veterans Day, let's make sure we expand those thank you’s to include everybody who is affected when somebody is deployed to a dangerous place or even serving through peacetime. It is a great sacrifice and one we should always show our gratitude for.”

Tillis on veterans in North Carolina:
“In North Carolina we have about 800,000 veterans. We also have one of the highest military concentrations of any state. It's the home of the global response force at Fort Bragg with over 65,000 men and women serving, including 38 generals. If you go a little bit closer to the coast and get to Jacksonville, North Carolina we have Camp Lejeune, where nearly 45% of the Marine Corps is stationed. You could go to Seymour Johnson, New River, or Cherry Point and see these men and women serving every day and the ones who served before them who are now part of our veteran population. We should thank them all for their current service or their past service.”

Tillis on supporting our veterans:
“We'll never finish all the work we should do. We'll keep on making installments into a debt we can never repay. But what we need to do on November 11th is support our veterans by showing our gratitude and our thanks for their service. On this Veterans Day, take an extra effort to thank a veteran, thank a veteran spouse, and thank the child of a veteran for their service to this great nation. We'll never be able to fully repay the debt that we owe them, but we can make a lot of installments as individual citizens and as members of this Congress, and as long as I'm in the U.S. Senate that's what I intend to do.”
 

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