It declares Verardo’s “Alive Day” as Wounded Warriors Day in North Carolina.
Cooper described North Carolina as a military and veteran-friendly state, with more than 750,000 veterans, of which more than 150,000 are disabled.
Cooper said sitting next to Verardo and being around other wounded veterans Wednesday further put the numbers into perspective.
“Because of you, I can run for office. Because of you, I have my freedom. . This is what we are about, not only as North Carolinians but as Americans,” Cooper told the veterans.
Verardo’s wife, Sarah Verado, said her husband is proud of his service, and the terroristic attacks on 9/11 was the driving force for him wanting to join the military.
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North-east Wiltshire had just been crowned the UK’s vodka capital, and one of the best vodka-making regions in the world.
Ramsbury Estate, at Aldbourne near Marlborough, won Spirit of the Year, Vodka Of the Year and a gold medal at last week’s prestigious London Spirits Competition.
“Our English Horatio wheat is planted by an Englishman and a Welshman. It’s cut by a German combine-harvester driven by a Welshman and then loaded into a French-built trailer pulled by a German tractor driven by a South African and then handed over to the head distiller who is Hungarian, Horvath Tibor, who took over from an Indian distiller, Dhiraj Pujari, who makes the English vodka using German equipment bought by the Swedish owner, Stefan Persson whose father Erling founded H&M (Hennes & Mauritz) fashion. How about that for globalisation!”
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