[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 145 (Friday, October 7, 1994)]
[Senate]
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[Congressional Record: October 7, 1994]
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                                HI-LO-L

 Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, there is, in my home State of 
Vermont, a long tradition of patriotism and of caring for the land that 
many feel makes Vermont unique. This has just been well exemplified 
through the selfless act of a Vermont family living on a hill farm at 
the very center of our State.
  Gary and Alice Lake and Dorothy Wathley have sold the development 
rights on their dairy farm to the State of Vermont. This will insure 
that this handsome acreage, high in the Green Mountain foothills, will 
remain forever in farming.
  This is well and good. But in addition, the land happens to lie in 
full view of the Vermont Veterans Cemetery, dedicated just a year ago. 
Vermont's is a military history stretching from the capture of Fort 
Ticonderoga, through the War of 1812, Gettysburg and Cedar Creek, to 
Manila Bay, Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal and Normandy, to the present day.
  The new veterans cemetery commands one of Vermont's fine views, 
southward from its hillside location over the ancient hills and 
valleys. The farm, known as Hi-Lo-L, is the centerpiece of that view. 
By the generosity of these wonderful people, this farm will ever be a 
farm. And the final resting place of those men and women who have given 
so much to their State and Nation will ever hold a view of the best of 
Vermont.

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