“ALWAYS DO HIM PROUD”
Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong also reflected on Mr Lee’s passing and said that Singaporeans remember him for all he did for the nation.
“To me and my family, he was our father or grandfather, and meant the world to us. May we live up to his hopes and expectations, and always do him proud.”
President Tharman Shanmugaratnam said Singapore would be a very different place if not for Mr Lee.
“We survived as a small nation, became a multiracial society, and kept climbing up in the world because of him, the team he led, and his insistence that every generation should have its own leaders – and its own ideals and aspirations for the future,” he said.
President Tharman added that to live up to Mr Lee’s legacy is to “keep imagining a better future, and making it possible”.
“To keep striving to be a place that uplifts every Singaporean, makes us all that we can be together, and uplifts the spirit.”
