Piernick had two veterans bring him a long narrow box wrapped in gold with a black band on one end. What was inside, he said, was more valuable than gold. The box opened, a banner proclaiming FREEDOM unfurled and was held up.
Piernick spoke eloquently of freedoms without restraint – “But freedom has a price.”
The black band signified the millions of men and women lost at war and as many injured, he explained.
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