{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://davidscott.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=397790", "Clayton News Daily: Jonesboro honors veterans", "2016-11-11", "2016", "2016-11", "Democrat", "House", "GA", "David Scott", "S001157", "davidscott.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "By Joe Adgie\r\nUpdated Nov 11, 2016 \r\n JONESBORO \u2014 America\u2019s veterans were honored Friday at a moving Veteran\u2019s Day ceremony at Lee Street Park.\r\nThe event, which featured U.S. Rep. David Scott as a guest speaker, honored living veterans of every conflict since World War II and every branch of the military.\r\nJoy Day, Jonesboro mayor, said the event was about valuing those that have served in the Armed Forces.\r\n\u201cToday is about those who have served the cause of freedom, our beloved veterans,\u201d Day said. \u201cVeterans love their country. They believe in a cause. They know first-hand that the world is a better place because of the power, influence and value of the United States of America.\u201d\r\nA veteran of World War II was present and was pointed out in the crowd by Scott, who discussed the bravery of that generation, a generation referred to by some as the \u201cGreatest Generation.\u201d\r\n\u201cWe owe so much, but not just us,\u201d Scott said. \u201cLadies and gentlemen, we\u2019ve had wars upon wars, but there was no war like World War II. If it wasn\u2019t for us, the American solider who went in hails of bullets, sitting on the ships, in the airplanes, bound for Normandy, where we had over 300,000 of our soldiers braving the oceans to land at Omaha Beach and Utah Beach in a hail of bullets and armor from the German machine guns.\u201d\r\nScott said it was the efforts of Americans on the beaches of Normandy that helped liberate France and the rest of Europe from the rule of Nazi Germany in June 1944.\r\n\u201cHad we not gone on D-Day, Europe would be speaking German today,\u201d Scott said. \u201cI not only speak for me, but I speak for the President, for NATO, I speak for Great Britain and all of our allies\u2026 Your generation, the World War II generation, saved the world.\u201d\r\nScott, who is a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, said in his travels around the world, he has spoken to individuals who have shared more knowledge of the American military than people stateside.\r\n\u201cThis is an extraordinary day, and we take it too lightly,\u201d Scott said. \u201cWe do not have the full educational grasp in our schools, in our colleges to understand the sacrifices that our military has made for this world. I get to travel around the world as a member of NATO, and I talk to people, and there\u2019s such a great respect for our military.\u201d\r\nScott said the country taking Veteran\u2019s Day lightly is a problem.\r\n\u201cWe\u2019ve got to correct that,\u201d Scott said.\r\nThe event featured representatives from every branch of the military - the Navy, Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard, and veterans of the Korean War, Vietnam Conflict, Cold War, Desert Shield, Desert Storm and the War on Terror, among other conflicts.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://davidscott.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=397790"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8500209078192711, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}