 Hello, I'm Howard DeVall, your Columbia City Councilman at large. I am the only Councilman to the city of Columbia that is actually a veteran. I'm wearing my Citadel cap today to show you that I graduated from the Citadel, the military college of South Carolina in 1965. And like almost all of my classmates, I went into the armed services because of the Vietnam War. I served for four years in U.S. Air Force with the Strategic Air Command and came back to South Carolina and served four more years at McIntyre Air Force Base with the Air National Guard of South Carolina. Like many thousands of people since the Revolutionary War, I have been a veteran that has served during the war time. Right now, I would like to give you an opportunity to become a veteran also. The United States and the world are fighting a deadly virus. We have lost almost 250,000 people in the United States from the coronavirus, and I would like to enlist all of you in the battle that we need to win against this deadly virus. The simple things that you can do to help will make you veterans. For instance, you need to wash your hands, socially distance, and wear a mask. This is a very simple thing for you to do, but it has been proven to be the most effective way that we can get this virus under control. So become a veteran in the modern sense of the word today, and thank you for your service.