[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 45 (Thursday, March 20, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H2134]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    HOPE AND PRAY FOR SWIFT SUCCESS

  (Mr. McNULTY. asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McNULTY. Mr. Speaker, today our Nation is at war. I know the pain 
of war. On August 9, 1970, my brother William F. McNulty, a medical 
corpsman, was in the fields of Quang Nam Province in Vietnam patching 
up his buddies when he stepped on a land mine and lost his life. My 
family has lived with the pain of that loss every day since then, as 
have the residents of our small community of Green Island, New York.
  It would be my hope that no other family would have to endure that 
kind of pain, but that would be unrealistic. Some will. All I can do 
today is hope and pray for the swift success of our troops in their 
noble mission. May they return home soon and safely, knowing that they 
have liberated the people of Iraq from a reign of terror which they 
have endured for more than a quarter of a century.

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