[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 4, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: October 4, 1994]
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       VIETNAM, SOMALIA, PORT-AU-PRINCE--WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?

  (Mr. DORNAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.
  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I have just come from Arlington cemetery and 
a ceremony for the last known POW of the Vietnam war, Col. Charles 
Shelton. He disappeared after 5, 6, 7 years of captivity in the mists 
of history, somewhere in Laos, held in caves with my best friend, David 
Hrdlicka, who suffered the same fate.
  The ceremony today was at the grave of my friend, Marian Shelton, who 
died 4 years ago today after a 25-year crusade to implore her 
government to find out the fate of our missing in action in Southeast 
Asia. Today is the 1-year anniversary of the most pathetic and 
loathsome film Americans have ever had to watch of their fighting men, 
Tommy Fields, Gary Gordon, Randy Shugart, Ray Frank, and David 
Cleveland, their bodies dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, stark 
naked, poles and bayonets and rifle barrels stuck into their bodies, 
and then those burned remains dumped over the next 2 weeks, one at a 
time, on the steps of the U.N. compound that is today the headquarters 
of Aideed, the warlord and killer.
  Why are we going through this again in Haiti? Vietnam, Somalia, Port-
au-Prince--what is the difference?

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