When NASA sends the space shuttle on its mission into space and the solid fuel rocket boosters help power it skyward, you can be proud of the fact that Industrial Sector Boilermakers proudly contributed to space exploration.

When you turn on your tap at home and fill your glass with water, look again at the familiar water tower. Or when you turn on your gas heat or gas stove, look again at the storage tanks that hold the gas for literally millions of families and businesses. National Transient Division Boilermakers proudly contributed.

When you flip the light switch on at home, turn the thermostat to a more comfortable setting or fill your car with gas at the local service station, along with millions of other citizens, be proud of the work both Construction Division Boilermakers and Shop Fabrication Boilermakers contributed to your everyday lives.

When you and your family, or millions of others, sit down to dinner at a neighborhood restaurant, where your meal is prepared on a Hobart stove or stored in a Whirlpool refrigerator or take a Thyssen-Krupp elevator to your destination, you can be sure that Stove Division Boilermakers proudly contributed.

When you walk down a sidewalk or drive over an overpass or enter a skyscraper, along with millions of other citizens, give another look to the cement that holds it all together. Cement Division Boilermakers proudly contributed.

When you watch those heavy, powerful locomotives pulling hundreds of rail cars along our railways, moving the goods and services that help keep our economy on track, you can be sure that Railroad Division Boilermakers proudly contributed.

And when you see railcar after railcar filled with coal, destined to power the boilers we build and the power they generate, you can be proud of the fact that Coal Mining Boilermakers worked hard to contribute.

When you consider the dyes, flanges, machine parts, and other forged components that are so critical to our industrial infrastructure, you will know that Forging Industry Boilermakers proudly contributed.

And when you or millions of others receive the first responder service of a paramedic and a life is saved, take heart, PEP Division Boilermakers proudly contributed.

When you pull the McGregor Tourney 5 iron from your golf bag, to make that next 150-yard shot to the green, just up next to the pin, give those clubs another look, Metal Polisher Boilermakers proudly contributed.

And when you walk up that 150 yards and find your Spaulding golf ball actually sitting at the bottom of the cup, don't hit that one again. Put it in a special place and know that Boilermakers from a forging lodge proudly contributed.

And Brothers and Sisters, when you sit down at your neighborhood bar, just as millions of others do across the country, to watch the Purdue Boilermakers meet their challenger and you order up a shot and a beer, you know Boilermakers contributed.