[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 98 (Thursday, June 15, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8448-S8449]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       A CELEBRATION OF DAD'S DAY

  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President,
   as we approach Father's Day 1995, I want to share with the Senate 
and the American people a letter I have received from a fellow New 
Mexican, Chuck Everett. Mr. Everett originally wrote this letter while 
he was serving in Korea to his father who was back home in the United 
States.

  Mr. Everett's father described the letter as ``a masterpiece of 
simple truths.'' I could not agree more. In Mr. Everett's cover letter 
to me, he says to ``delete the word `Communism' and insert the word 
`terrorism' and we have a thought that is as true today as in 1952.'' 
His prophetic and patriotic words are as valid now as they were when he 
first wrote them. I trust you will find the text of Mr. Everett's 1952 
letter a hopeful and encouraging sample of a young man's commitment to 
America and its values. These are indeed ``simple truths.'' Times have 
changed the face of totalitarian and Communist regimes, but new dangers 
are substituted for the old. As Mr. Everett says, we ``are on a 
mission, so that next year and the years that follow, free people all 
over the world can celebrate Dad's Day.'' I respectfully ask unanimous 
consent that the text of Mr. Everett's letter be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the letter was ordered to be printed in the 
Record, as follows:

                                                      October 1952
       It's a beautiful morning, the kind of a day when a fellow 
     likes to get up early in the morning, gather up his golf 
     clubs and head for an early morning bout with fairways, 
     roughs, greens and caddies.
       I'd like to sit down to a nice roast beef dinner, with 
     diced carrots, peas, Brussels sprouts, chopped salad, blue-
     berry pie and a big glass of milk. In the afternoon I'd like 
     to siesta, then pack a picnic lunch of cold cuts, cheese and 
     lemonade, and head for Stone Park. I left out something. Oh, 
     yes, of course, church. I'd like to go to church after golf, 
     where the services would be devoted to Father's Day.
       That's how I'd like to spend the day. But some of us are on 
     a mission, so that next year and the years that follow, free 
     people all over the world can celebrate Dad's Day. We know we 
     will succeed in our mission here, but will those at home 
     remember our efforts and strive to realize our purpose? The 
     battles we fight here cannot, in themselves, assure us that 
     we will have a free world. It takes the combined efforts of 
     educators, industrialists, politicians and religious leaders 
     to assure a free world. The shackles of communism are not 
     bound about the legs of only [[Page S8449]] those behind the 
     iron curtain. It has shackled the minds of free men 
     everywhere into believing that it is better than free 
     enterprise and democracy.
       That is where you people must carry the fight to the enemy. 
     Bullets alone will not stop communism. Let us, on this day 
     dedicated to fathers, dedicate our lives to the support of 
     free will, free speech, freedom from fear, freedom of 
     religion, and freedom of thought.
       We cannot fear communism, but we must make communism fear 
     us. And, believe me, the Reds do. At every move of our enemy, 
     we stop them, we repulse them and we humiliate them. It is 
     but a matter of time before they will quit. They can only 
     suffer defeat. Be it not the will of free men to be dictated 
     to, and thus communism cannot succeed.
     

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