![]() And you give many New Yorkers confidence. ![]() And I'm proud to fight this fight with you and I bring you thanks from all New Yorkers, who are just so appreciative of the sacrifice that you are making, the skill that you are bringing, the talent that you're bringing. And every time the National Guard has been called out they have made every New Yorker proud. And you'll serve with honor and that will give you pride and you should be proud. And you will have shown skill and courage and talent. ![]() That is your duty, to do what you can when you can. That's what you will have done and at the end of the day nobody can ask anything more from you. You'll be proud that you showed up - you showed up - when other people played it safe you had the courage to show up and you had the skill and the professionalism to make a difference and save lives. But this is a moment that will change character.Īnd 10 years from now you'll be talking about today to your children or your grandchildren and you will shed a tear because you will remember the lives lost, and you'll remember the faces and you'll remember the names, and you'll remember how hard we worked and that we still lost loved ones.Īnd you'll shed a tear and you should because it will be sad. This is a moment that forges character, forges people, changes people, make them stronger, make them weaker. This is a moment that is going to change this nation. This is going to be one of those moments they are going to write about and they're going to talk about for generations. My second point is, you are living a moment in history. We're going to do this and we're going to do this together. I promise you, I will not ask you to do anything that I will not do myself and I'll never ask you to go anywhere that I won't go myself. And every instinct says protect them, help them, protect them because they need us.Īnd those are the exact people that this enemy attacks.Įvery time, I've called out the National Guard I've said the same thing to you. It attacks our most vulnerable, which makes it even worse in many ways.īecause these are the people that every instinct tells us we are supposed to protect. The rescue mission is to save lives and as hard as we work we're not going to be able to save everyone.Īnd what's even more cruel is this enemy doesn't attack the strongest of us. ![]() The mission is to save lives - that's what you're doing. This is gonna be weeks and weeks and weeks.Īs winter virus activity picks up, CDC warns of ‘urgent need' to boost vaccine coverage This is not going to be that you go out there for a few days, we work hard and we go home. This is not going to be a short deployment. But what you did is really incredible.Īnd I want to make two points to you, and I want to make two promises to you: This is a different beast that we're dealing with. That's the downside of being as good as you are at what you did. Now you did such a good job that I'm asking for four more from the president. And what you did in this facility in one week creating a hospital is just incredible. "And I want to thank our National Guard because you are the best of us.Īnd whenever we call on you, you are there. Below is the text of Cuomo's rallying cry for what he called a rescue mission that will change the nation forever and forge character: Javits Convention Center in Manhattan Friday where members of the New York National Guard are constructing a 1,000-bed field hospital to help in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.
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