[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 93 (Wednesday, June 6, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H4783-H4784]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         NORMANDY: JUNE 6, 1944

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, in the cold, damp, dark rain of 
morning, thousands of young American soldiers sailed across the 
treacherous English Channel. The day was June 6, 1944; their 
destination, Normandy, France; the mission, not conquest, but 
liberation of Europe.
  Operation Overlord, or D-Day, called for a massive ally invasion of 
the continent during World War II. Securing the brutal Omaha and Utah 
beachheads inch by bloody inch, our boys finally declared victory, 
forcing Hitler to begin his long retreat into oblivion.
  That victory did not come without cost, however. Today, 9,387 white 
crosses and Stars of David overlook the silent beaches of Normandy, 
marking

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the final resting place of America's war dead.
  The soldiers buried there were part of the Greatest Generation, young 
men from every State and territory in the United States.
  We remember them, our warriors, those that were killed, those that 
returned, and those that returned with the wounds of war, because, Mr. 
Speaker, the worst casualty of war is to be forgotten.
  And that is just the way it is.

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