[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6947-6948]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           OUR SERVICEMEN HAVE OUR TOTAL, UNQUALIFIED SUPPORT

  (Mr. WATTS of Oklahoma asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WATTS of Oklahoma. Mr. Speaker, there is a 20-year-old airman out 
there who is working incredible hours, 7 days a week, all for a cause 
that he trusts is just.
  He puts his faith in his government, in officers above him and in the 
people of the United States that he will only be put in harm's way for 
noble and worthy reasons.
  That 20-year-old is stationed in Aviano, Italy, and elsewhere across 
the globe. He does not have time to read the New York Times or to watch 
CNN to see how the war is going because he is too busy doing his job, 
making sure that the planes being flown in actual combat missions are 
as safe and effective as humanly possible. He is unaware of the debates 
going on in Congress about the wisdom of our policy in the Balkans. He 
cares little for politics, but he does expect his political leaders to 
put one concern above all others, do whatever it takes to see that our 
mission is successful.
  We are only Americans now, and that 20-year-old airman and all of his 
fellow

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servicemen have our total, unqualified, full support. May God bring him 
home safely.

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