Most of New Hampshire’s congressional delegation joined Gov. Kelly Ayotte on Tuesday morning at the New Hampshire Veterans Home to thank all who served in the armed forces. Later, they were all serenaded by a residents’ choir and a young “Taps” player.

Commandant Kim MacKay called the governor “a strong advocate” and friend of the Veterans Home.

Ayotte opened her remarks by pointing out that the United States is a great country directly because of the people she was addressing and those men and women on active duty.

“You are the heroes,” Ayotte told a packed Town Hall auditorium at the home, adding, however, that the families of members of the armed forces are very important, too.

Ayotte said she is the spouse of a retired Air Force A-10 pilot and the mother of a daughter enrolled in t

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