NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio paid tribute to the United States’ fallen service members during a Memorial Day ceremony at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Monday.
Speaking at the military and maritime history museum’s ceremony Monday morning, de Blasio called Memorial Day “a day to remember the people we lost, those we know, and those we didn’t.”
“If you look around at this great ship, you look at the good men and women in uniform, all around us. If you’re like me, you feel very proud at this moment,” he said. “Regardless of the challenges we’ve been through, there’s so much that bonds us together, gives us a reason for hope.”
“I hope on Memorial Day, we remember what was, and we remember the ideals of those who gave their lives, and then we recommit ourselves, because in the end, everyone here has talked about the challenges we faced, but we cannot let those challenges overcome us,” he added.
“The pandemic threw at us more than we ever could have imagined, but we did persevere, all of us, as New Yorkers, as Americans, we did persevere,” he went on to say.
“We found something inside ourselves. Let's find it now. As we bind our nation together, again, let's find the unity that we felt in those moments, fighting COVID shoulder to shoulder and take it forward, create something better.”