[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 94 (Wednesday, June 5, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H4338-H4339]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       75TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize the 75th 
anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy, known as D-Day, or 
Operation Overlord, and to recognize those who sacrificed to begin the 
liberation from Nazi Germany.
  On June 6, 1944, over 4,400 Allied soldiers crossed the English 
Channel and gave many of their lives while storming the beaches code 
named Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword.
  Madam Speaker, 2,501 of those soldiers who died on those beaches were 
Americans who never got to return home.
  The impact that this had on our communities back home was great--
take, for example, the Bedford boys from a small town in Bedford, 
Virginia. Thirty-five men who had grown up together boarded landing 
craft that day and embarked towards France, and 19 of them didn't make 
it back.

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  This small Southern town is an example of the sacrifices made by many 
small towns and families all across this country during that effort 
that day and during that war. They did it to protect our freedom, our 
American way of life, and those of our allies around the world to help 
defeat the grip of the National Socialist German Workers' Party regime.
  We will always be grateful for those who gave that day, for those who 
survived, and for those who didn't come back, and that is why it is 
important to always mark this day, D-Day, June 6.

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