John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport (IATA: ASX, ICAO: KASX), also known as JFK Memorial Airport, is a general aviation airport located 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of the city Ashland, in Ashland County, Wisconsin, USA. It covers 467 acres (189 ha) and has two runways.
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“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 29:18.
President John F. Kennedy quoted this passage on the eve of his assassination in Dallas, Texas. Quoted in Theodore C. Sorenson, Kennedy, epilogue (1965)
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—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
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