Paying tribute to our fighting men and women serving in Afghanistan.

How do we adequately pay tribute to our fighting men and women serving in Afghanistan or anywhere around the world? I guess the other part of that question is, How do we adequately express our gratitude for those who are serving, those who served and came back with no injury or were able to get back to some semblance of a normal life, those who served and came back but are suffering grievously from an injury, and finally how do we adequately express our gratitude to those who were killed in action and express gratitude to their families as well? The answer to all those questions is we cannot adequately express our gratitude. But even though it is inadequate, even though it falls short of what we hope it could be, we still have to thank them--we still have to--and should express our gratitude. I do that tonight, with a healthy dose of humility, with recognition it is very difficult to express our gratitude. SGT Jan Argonish of Scranton, PA; SFC Scott Ball of Carlisle, PA; LTC Richard Berrettini of Wilcox, PA; CPT David Boris of Pottsville, PA; PVT Matthew Brown of Zelienople, PA; SGT Douglas Bull of Wilkes-Barre, PA; SGT Joseph Caskey of Pittsburgh, PA; 1LT Jeffrey Deprimo of Pittston, PA; PFC James Dillion, Jr., of Grove City, PA; PFC Michael Dinterman of Littlestown, PA; SSG Troy Ezernack of Lancaster, PA; LCPL Ralph Fabbri of Gallitzin, PA; SGT Louis Fastuca of West Chester, PA; SFC Robert Fike of Conneautville, PA; SSG Sean Flannery of Wyomissing, PA; SGT James Fordyce of Newtown Square, PA; PO3 John Fralish of New Kingstown, PA; LCPL Michael Freeman of Fayetteville, PA; A1C Austin Gates Benson of Hellertown, PA; SGT Christopher Geiger of Northampton, PA; 2LT Michael Girdano of Apollo, PA; CPL Joshua Harton of Bethlehem, PA; SGT Michael Heede, Jr., of Delta, PA; SGT Brett Hershey of State College, PA; SP Derek Holland of Wind Gap, PA; SFC Bryan Hoover of West Elizabeth, PA; LCPL Abram Howard of Williamsport, PA; SSG Matthew Ingham of Altoona, PA; PFC David Jefferson of Philadelphia, PA; LCPL Larry Johnson of Scranton, PA; SGT Nathan Kennedy of Claysville, PA; CPL Jarrid King of Erie, PA; SP Dale Kridlo of Hughestown, PA; PFC Serge Kropov of Hawley, PA; SSG Patrick Kutschbach of McKees Rocks, PA; SGT Ryan Lane of Pittsburgh, PA; MSG Arthur Lilley of Smithfield, PA; CPT Ronald Luce, Jr., of Wayne, PA; SP Jonathan Luscher of Scranton, PA; MSGT Thomas Maholic of Bradford, PA; SGT Jonathan McColley of Gettysburg, PA; SGT Andrew McConnell of Carlisle, PA; 1SG Christopher Rafferty of Brownsville, PA; SP Jesse Reed of Orefield, PA; SGT Joshua Rimer of Rochester, PA; GYSGT Justin Schmalstieg of Pittsburgh, PA; SGT Derek Shanfield of Hastings, PA; SFC Michael Shannon of Canadensis, PA; CWO4 Michael Slebodnik of Gibsonia, PA; SSG Marc Small of Collegeville, PA; SSG Glen Stivison, Jr. of Blairsville, PA; CPL Sascha Struble of Philadelphia, PA; PFC Brandon Styer of Lancaster, PA; SSG Paul Sweeney of Lakeville, PA; SSG Richard Tieman of Waynesboro, PA; CPL Eric Torbert, Jr. of Lancaster, PA; LCPL Joshua Twigg of Indiana, PA; SP Anthony Vargas of Reading, PA; SSG William Vile of Philadelphia, PA; SGT David Wallace III of Sharpsville, PA; SGT Jonathan Walls of West Lawn, PA; SSG David Weigle of Philadelphia, PA; CPT Bryan Willard of Hummelstown, PA; CPL Anthony Williams of Oxford, PA.