[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 64 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4343]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               APOLOGY DUE AMERICANS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY

  (Mr. ABERCROMBIE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ABERCROMBIE. Mr. Speaker, 50 years ago this year Senator Daniel 
Inouye was fighting to liberate Italy from Nazi oppression. He lost his 
arm and almost his life, as did many other American soldiers of 
Japanese ancestry.
  What a savage irony it is that Senator Inouye and other veterans of 
the 442d and the 100th Battalions have to listen to the kind of mockery 
that was displayed on the 50th anniversary of the defeat of nazism by 
Senator Alfonse D'Amato.
  I trust that Senator D'Amato will display some sense of shame. I 
would like to believe it was an anomaly, that it was something that was 
spontaneous and not well thought out. I would like to think that 
Senator D'Amato would have the common courtesy, as well as a sense of 
shame, to let Senator Inouye and all Americans of Japanese ancestry 
know that he apologizes.

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