[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 53 (Thursday, April 22, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H2339]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              PRAISE KERRY

  (Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, John Kerry did serve 
his country honorably in Vietnam and stood up with many Americans to 
question a war that had lost purpose and was losing many American 
lives.
  John Kerry's speech played an important role in moving the debate 
from the streets to the floor of the Senate. The Nixon administration 
was not responding to the changes in the war in Vietnam and was 
deceiving the American people about the war.
  Kerry's testimony saved lives. Kerry and other veterans who marched 
in D.C. in 1971 exercised the same patriotism that drove them to serve 
their country in the battle in Vietnam. They had fought for liberty and 
freedom of expression for the Vietnamese, and they returned to the 
United States to stand up and be heard. His actions should be praised, 
not scorned.

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