article_snippet: The event is open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.
article_snippet: And if we’ve done we job, then that next generation is going to be picking up the torch as well.'
article_snippet: New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a lead sponsor of the bill in Senate said Friday after the bill in the Senate's passage in the upper chamber that the 'award is a small token of our collective national gratitude to the courageous men and women who sacrificed so much to move our country forward.'
article_snippet: 'As we confront the myriad of challenges our country continues to face, we do so with the knowledge that we drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty that we did not we dig,' New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a lead sponsor of the bill in the Senate said in a statement.