WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, today released a video statement honoring Veterans Day on Nov. 11, 2017. Text of Isakson’s remarks is below.

“I’m here today to ask you and all Americans and all Georgians to pause and pay tribute to our veterans on Veterans Day, the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month, when the armistice ended World War I.

“Ever since, we have celebrated the men and women who’ve fought and risked their lives for our country, our liberty and our freedoms. We take for granted sometimes all that we have. But, we should never take for granted the sacrifice that many Americans have given so that you and I can be free to talk, as I am doing today, free to work where we want to work, free to raise our families and worship where they want to worship, and say what we think, where we want to say it.

“This is the greatest country on the face of this earth, and it is in large measure because of the great men and women who fought in our military to preserve the great level of liberty that our Founding Fathers put forward for us.

“So on this year’s Veterans Day, pay tribute to the veterans who have served you and your community, and say thank you to them for the job that they’ve done. For without the vets, there would be no America. May God bless America, and may God bless the veterans who served us.”

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The Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs is chaired by U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., in the 115th Congress. Isakson is a veteran himself – having served in the Georgia Air National Guard from 1966-1972 – and has been a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs since he joined the Senate in 2005. Isakson’s home state of Georgia is home to more than a dozen military installations representing each branch of the armed services as well as more than 750,000 veterans.