Friend,

Today is Patriot Remembrance Day – a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance dedicated to the 2,977 victims of the horrific terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The vast majority of those who lost their lives, 2,605, were our fellow countrymen (including five from Louisiana), and we remain as dedicated now as we were then to never forget those staggering losses.

The names of the five Louisianans who lost their lives that day:

U.S. Navy Lt. Michael Scott Lamana, age 31, was from Baton Rouge.

Investment management consultant Louis Calvin Williams, III, age 53, was from Mandeville.

U.S. Navy information systems technician second class Kevin Wayne Yokum, age 27, was from Lake Charles.

Executive assistant at Cantor Fitzgerald and former singer Elizabeth Ann “Betty” Farmer, age 62, was from New Orleans.

Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Joseph Hymel, age 55, was from New Orleans.

These names, and the names of all 2,977 people whose lives were taken that day by radical Islamic terrorism should live on in our memory.

Let us never forget.


Mike Johnson

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