A fitting tribute to those who fell

While the hotlinked webpage (click on the title line above) was posted to honor the sacrifice of CTT1 Daugherty - Woodrow Wilson's tribute from 1914 is as fitting now as it was then:
"In May of 1914 President Woodrow Wilson spoke at the Brooklyn Navy Yard with expressed purpose of saluting those who had recently lost their lives while serving in the U.S. Navy. His words were meant for the people of that time but they are equally applicable to men like Petty Officer Daugherty whose service and sacrifice help to preserve freedom in this day and time.

Have you thought of it, men? Here is the roster of the Navy—the list of the men, officers and enlisted men and Marines—and suddenly there swim nineteen stars out of the list—men who have suddenly been lifted into a firmament of memory where we shall always see their names shine, not because they called upon us to admire them, but because they served us, without asking any questions and in the performance of a duty which is laid upon us as well as upon them."