To begin our program, please welcome the honorable donny r. Tuck, mayor of the city of hampton. Please take your seats. Good morning, and welcome to the 400th anniversary of the first african landing commemorative ceremony. Its my honor to welcome Governor Ralph Northam and first lady pamela northam, Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax, attorney general mark herring, senator mark warner and senator tim kaine, u. S. Representative bobby scott and representative elaine lorry of virginia. Representative karen bass of california and representative william clay of missouri. Speaker of the house of delegates, kirklin cox, first counselor for the embassy of rwanda, former Virginia Governor jared, former Virginia Governor robert mcdonald, former missouri governor eric greitens, former representatives james moran and l. F. Payne, chief judge Roger Gregory of the First Circuit court of appeals, members of the governors cabinet, members of virginia General Assembly, including Senate Majority leade
Of us who are lightest friends will forever remember him but you, will remember him most. Every time the sun flashes on our face and warms us, we will miss elijah. You will miss him most. We loved him, but you would come to love him most. Please accept is you see, collective condolence of a whole host of americans who share this moment in front of tv strings and radios it will take this moment and teach in schools actually and who will share it with their own children. [applause] our prayers go out to his siblings, to his children, to all of those who were related to elijah. I said to me, now if you go before i go dont get up there and wing it. [laughter] [applause] he said write it down. Then he said, no really write it down. [applause] so here we are. His words of these, i think i know. The houses in the village. He will not see me stopping me here to watch his woods filled with snow. Yes those woods, are lovely dark and deep, but i have promises to keep. And miles to go before i sle
Im going morning. My friend, president obama, president clinton, Vice President biden, secretary of state clinton, governor hogan, mary jack young, distinguished clergy and all of the people suggested all over the place and ladies and gentlemen miya, those of us who are lightest friends will forever remember him but you, will remember him most. Every time the sun flashes on our face and warms us, we will miss elijah. You will miss him most. We loved him, but you would come to love him most. Please accept is you see, collective condolence of a whole host of americans who share this moment in front of tv strings and radios it will take this moment and teach in schools actually and who will share it with their own children. [applause] our prayers go out to his siblings, to his children, to all of those who were related to elijah. I said to me, now if you go before i go dont get up there and wing it. [laughter] [applause] he said write it down. Then he said, no really write it down. [appla
Welcome the mayor of the city of hampton. Please take your seat. Welcome to the 400th anniversary of the first landing ceremony. It is my honor to welcome governor ralph northern and pamela them. Justin fairfax, attorney general mark herring, mark warner and senator tim kane. U. S. Representative bobby scott of virginia and karen bass of california and representative william clay of missouri. The speaker of the house, cox, first counselor tested former virginia governor, cheryl delisles. Also robert mcdonnell. Former representatives and test it. First Circuit Court of appeals. Members of the cabinet. Also the General Assembly including thomas norman, kenny alexander, john wrote and joseph green junior and the members of the 400 years of africanAmerican History. National park service officials, including daniel smith, and david cella. The vice mayor jimmy gray and members of the city council. Also other special guests. On behalf of the members of city council, our city staff and residen
[applause] please take your seats. The morning and welcome to 400th anniversary commemorative ceremony. It is my honor to welcome the lady, thend the First Lieutenant governor justin fairfax, the attorney general, senator mark warner, and senator tim kaine. Scottepresentative bobby and a representative from virginia. Bass andative karen from missouri. Speaker of the house of for thes, first counsel embassy of wanda. ,he former Virginia Governor the former Virginia Governor robert mcdonald, the former missouri governor greitens, former representatives james payne, members of the governors cabinet, members of the virginia General Assembly, including senate ,ajority leader Thomas Norment portsmouth mayor john wrote, the members of the 400 years African American history federal museum, Deputy Assistant secretary of fish and wildlife parks, National Parks service officials, including daniel lla,h and david ve members of the Hampton City Council and other special guests. On behalf of the mem