[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 29 (Tuesday, February 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1700]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                   TRIBUTE AND THANK YOU TO VETERANS

  (Mr. COBLE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COBLE. Mr. Speaker, last week the Paralyzed Veterans of America 
were in town, and I attended the reception they hosted. I hope many of 
my colleagues did as well. The reception room was filled with paralyzed 
veterans confined to wheelchairs. But as I spoke with North Carolinian 
Cater Cornwell and the other paralyzed vets, I heard not one veteran 
who was griping, not one who was complaining. All were smiling and 
pleasantly welcoming us to their reception.
  As I was leaving the reception, a veteran said to me from his 
wheelchair, ``You Congressmen deserve praise for what you do.''
  I looked around the reception room and the paralyzed veterans therein 
and with a tear in my eye, I replied, ``No, sir, it is you and your 
fellow members of the PVA who are most deserving of praise.''
  Let us not casually dismiss the sacrifices made for us by the 
Paralyzed Veterans of America.

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