20 Quotes by Tom Tucker

When we engraved the 442 names on the back of the medals - that's when the reality sinks in. Everybody in the whole plant had to be involved to check the names and match the medals with the cases. You see names of fathers and sons and brothers and the reality sinks in that basically whole families were wiped out trying to help people. But that's what we do - what we manufacture generally has a higher degree of meaning to those that receive it. It's not just any award.

We're seeing quite a bit of activity with schools and higher education. They have a lot of data that needs to be secure.

Having been to New Orleans, we felt a connection.

There are numerous steps to making the Purple Hearts. Although it seems obvious, it's not. We had to refine the process.

It has a lot of meaning to us. We discuss that quite often.

Last summer we received a phone call from the Department of Justice requesting medals commemorating the fallen police officers and firefighters who died trying to rescue people during the 9/11 attacks. We did that order in record time. They know they can come to us and get high quality awards in the shortest time you can expect - but sometimes physics does limit some things.

You have to accumulate all that data. How do you manage that?

When they did this in the 18th century, it was fun and the purpose was to make the crowd have fun. ... If you didn't make the crowds happy, they wouldn't throw any money in your hat. 'Punch and Judy' hasn't lasted 300 and some years because it wasn't fun to watch.

We should wait until after the (April) election.