In a 1944 letter to “Dear Mollye” Sklut, Jake Coonin wrote:
we must remember those names in something more than a bronze plaque in the foyer. Those names must represent an ideal, to be held forward to the future, as something substantial.
Let’s leave it at that — my words are too inadequate for my emotions…
Read Jake Coonin’s letter.
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As we celebrate Memorial Day, I hope you will remember those names that represent the ideal that Jake Coonin was talking about.