VIEWPOINT: Taking care of our heroes

Guest column by Sec. Greg Whitlock, South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs

In September, I visited Mount Rushmore to pay tribute to the four great heroes who are carved into the mountainside in the Black Hills. 

Master carver Gutzon Borglum said that he selected George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in order to commemorate the founding, growth, preservation and development of the United Sta…