REMEMBER BEFORE YOU THIS DAY OUR BROTHER LAWRENCE. WEOTHER LAWRENCE. THANK YOU FOR GIVING HIM TO US. A SOMBER CEREMONY HELD FOR A BELOVED HERO NEW ORLEANS HIS OWN LAWRENCE BROOKS. THE WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN CELEBRATED AT THE WORLD WAR TWO MUSEUM PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LI TFEHERE TO HONOR HIM THROUGH WORDS AND SONGS. EVEN THE WHITE HOUSE AS PR ESIDENT JOE BIDEN OFFERED CONDOLENCES THROUGH A LETTER DELIVERED BY SENIOR ADVISOR CEDRIC, RICHNDMO KNOW THERE ARE NO WORDS. I CAN SHARE THAT WILL EASE THE PAIN YOU FEEL RIGHT NOW. BUT PLEASE KNOW OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY. IS STANDING WITH YOU DURING THIS DIFFICULTIT ME? MR. BROOKS WAS KNOWN FOR HIS ODGO HUMOR AND ENTHUSIASM. A MAN OF FAITH WHO WOULD SAY HIS SECRET TO 1 Y12EARS OF LONGEVITY WAS SIMPLY BEING NICE TO PEOPLE. I LOVE I LOVE PEOEPL AND IT’S KINDNESS WAS RETURNED EACH SEPTEMBER AS PEOPLE SHOWEDP U TO CELEBRATEIS H BIRTHDAY OVER THE YEARS THEES CELEBRATIONS INCLUDED REMARKS FROM MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT OFFIAICLS. WE HAD A CAR IN A JEEP PARADE JAZZ BD ANPERFORMANCES EVEN. A MILITARY FLYOVER BUT MR. BROOKS ALWAYS SAID HIS FAVORITE PART WITH THE VICTORY BELLS. LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SEE HIS TIME IN THE ARMY WAS A HISTORIC ONE. DRAFTED AND SERVED DURING WORLD WARWO T IN THE 91ST ENGINEER BATTALION A PREDOMINANTLY BLACK UNIT AT THAT TIME. WHEN THE MILITARYND A THE COUNTRY WERE STILL HEAVILY SEGREGATED BY RACE. CURRTEN COMMANDER OF THAT SAME BATTALION SAYS BROOKS’ CAREER LEFT A LASTING IMPACT. BUT AS I LOOK OUT AND SEE ALL ETH PROUD FACES HEER TODAY TO HONOR THIS AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN SERVICE. LIFE AND LEGACY I CAN’T BUT FEEL HUMBLED. BYHE T PROGRESS OUR NATION HAS MADE. HONORED TO PRESENTLY SERVE IN ETH WORLD’S MOST DIVERSE FORCE AND HOPEFUL FOR WHAT COMES NEXT. WHAT COMES NEXT FOR MR. BROOKS IS REST? AFTER A FULL LIFE LIV AND HONODRE BY MANY HE HAS ENTERED HEAVENLY REST. THAT PEACEFUL KINGDOM WHERE THERE IS NO PAIN? WHERE THERE IS NO DEATH? NEITHER SORROW NOR WEEPING BUT LIFE EVERLASTING