Thank you for your skill, commitment, courage and service.  The people you protect are grateful, and far safer for your efforts.

Thanks also to the professionals in the American intelligence community.  I am privileged to be good friends with a couple of them.  (I was a reporter in Virginia for years.)  Forget what Hollywood tells us — they want nothing more than to protect their country from harm, and are among the kindest and most idealistic people I know.  And, believe me, even if they can’t say much about it, right now they are working their asses off.

E PLURIBUS UNUM.