Remarks by Secretary Hagel at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel

JERUSALEM–(ENEWSPF)–April 21, 2013. 

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CHUCK HAGEL:  Thank you.  Good afternoon.  First, I thank you for accompanying my visit here to this important, inspirational, beautiful institution.  I have brought my son, Ziller, with me on this trip.  And I particularly wanted him to accompany me here for this experience.

As you know, we all understand and appreciate that museums, remembrances, institutions, yes, are built to recognize, a tribute to, those generations of the past,…