<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Joe Graviss <joe@joegraviss.com><br><b>Date:</b> November 8, 2019 at 5:04:42 PM EST<br><b>To:</b> Joe Graviss <joe@joegraviss.com><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>legislative update</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Hi Everybody!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">On Monday, our nation will pause to pay tribute to our veterans, an unparalleled group of men and women who have defended our freedom and fought for countless others around the world
for nearly two-and-a-half centuries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> Veterans Day is always a special time, but this year’s is even more noteworthy, since the holiday arrives exactly a century after its predecessor – Armistice Day – was
first declared by President Woodrow Wilson to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the truce that effectively ended World War I in 1918.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The hope back then was that this tragic conflict would live up to its informal name, The War to End All Wars. That, of course, did not happen, and after the fighting of World War
II and the Korean War, Congress and President Eisenhower expanded Armistice Day’s scope and changed its name so that it honored all who had worn our nation’s uniform.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">More than 40 million people have served in our Armed Forces since our country’s founding, and about half are still with us today. It’s estimated that 295,000 of them call the commonwealth
home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Kentucky has a long history of stepping up on our country’s behalf. We suffered more casualties during the War of 1812, for example, than every other state combined. Today, we
play integral roles in our nation’s defense through Fort Knox, Fort Campbell, the National Guard, the Reserves and other military-related installations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We've stood out individually, as well.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">A Kentuckian is believed to be one of the first few Americans to die during World War I, and another was that war’s second-to-last American survivor, passing
away a decade ago just a few days before his 108<sup>th</sup> birthday.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"><br>
<span style="background:white"> In World War II, it was a Kentuckian who led the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, and another Kentuckian became the first U.S. Armored Forces casualty when the Philippine Islands
were attacked just hours later.</span><br>
<span style="background:white"> The most iconic photo from World War II – the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima – features a Kentuckian among the six Marines pictured. A Kentuckian was also the first soldier to plant our flag on foreign soil.
That moment is best remembered in the second half of the opening line of the Marines’ Hymn: “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.”</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">More than 60 Kentuckians have been awarded the prestigious Medal of Honor, and just recently, a Trigg County native – Lieutenant General Scott Howell – served
as commander of the Special Forces team that brought down a deadly Islamic State leader.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">At the Capitol in Frankfort, state leaders have worked hard over the years to help our veterans however we can. Since the 1990s, we’ve established a department
dedicated solely to getting them the benefits and services they deserve; we’ve built an array of veterans nursing homes and state-run cemeteries to complement our national cemeteries; we’ve set aside Veterans Day as a state holiday; we've made it easier for
veterans to become teachers, work for state government and use their military training to qualify for private-sector jobs; and we’ve awarded high school diplomas to older veterans who enlisted before they could graduate.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">If you are a veteran, I want to thank you for all that you’ve done for our country and the values we stand for. Your service can never be adequately repaid, but
we must make sure that it is never forgotten. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">My hope is that many will be able to participate in Veterans Day events planned in the days ahead. If you are unable to attend, I encourage you to take at least
a few moments next Monday to remember what our veterans did for us and future generations.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">To borrow a line from Winston Churchill, “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Joe Graviss<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">56<sup>th</sup> District Representative<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kentucky House of Representatives<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">P.O. Box 1002<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Versailles, KY 40383<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">859-433-4392<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/KYFairMaps/"><span style="color:blue">https://www.facebook.com/KYFairMaps/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at it’s best is love correcting everything that stands against love.” Dr. Martin Luther King, August 16, 1967<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">“I believe we can agree that hearing and considering opinions differing from our own is important, and acknowledging the honorable and sincere intentions of our adversaries in advocacy should take precedence
over partisan interests.” </span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Nathaniel Adams-- April 20, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.” </span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Franklin
Delano Roosevelt—June 27, 1936<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion
toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black."
</span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Robert F. Kennedy, April 4, 1968.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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