[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 70 (Wednesday, June 8, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 8, 1994]
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               REPORT ON THE D-DAY CEREMONIES AT NORMANDY

  (Mr. MONTGOMERY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MONTGOMERY. Madam Speaker, our Speaker, the gentleman from 
Washington [Mr. Foley], authorized 27 Members of the House to represent 
the House of Representatives at the D-day ceremonies, and with that 
group was the minority leader, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. 
Michel]. My codel spent 7 days in Europe. We went to the United 
Kingdom, Italy, and France. We were very proud that the gentleman from 
Florida [Mr. Gibbons] represented President Clinton. When the President 
had to go other places, Madam Speaker, Sam was there representing the 
President.
  And I thought the President made some strong remarks at Normandy, and 
I thought he handled himself very well.
  I would say to my colleagues, If you saw all the white crosses, at 
the different American cemeteries, you realize war is really 
devastating, and if you also realize that those young men buried under 
those crosses were 18 and 19 years old, young men who really had just 
started in life.
  Madam Speaker, our codel is sending a brief report to all Members of 
the House. That report will go out today. I hope that Members will have 
a short time just to read that brief report.

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