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Article: Solemn salute: PLANET honors Phil Fogarty for organizing Renewal & Remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery--the Green Industry's annual service salute to America's military heroes and their families.(Cover story)
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- Landscape Management
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- January 1, 2009
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WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE captured the essence of Renewal & Remembrance more than 100 years ago when the four-time British prime minister said, "Show me the manner in which a nation or community cares for its dead, and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty to high ideals."
It is those same high ideals that rendered Phil Fogarty (typically a talkative, jolly lawn care company owner) speechless and tearful when he humbly accepted, on behalf of hundreds of volunteers and dozens of sponsors, the Lifetime Leadership Award for helping found and ...