[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 9232]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      VETERANS APPRECIATION MONTH

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                       HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR.

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, May 11, 1999

  Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Speaker, the people of our Nation have 
great appreciation and admiration for the many men and women who have 
served this country in the armed forces to protect and preserve our 
freedom and safety and that of others across the globe. In addition to 
a debt of gratitude, our Nation has a long tradition of providing 
concrete assistance to veterans to readjust to civilian life, to find 
employment therein, and to buy a home. We owe even more to those 
veterans who became disabled as a result of their service to our 
Nation. That assistance we provide usually pays benefits back to our 
society manyfold as veterans utilize their hard-earned skills, 
discipline, and loyalty in civilian life and their communities.
  To help promote the many valuable programs our Nation, States, 
localities, and the private sector have to assist veterans, many 
States, including my own State of California, have proclaimed 
``veterans appreciation months.'' May is Veterans Appreciation Month in 
California, so declared by Governor Gray Davis. I wish to draw the 
attention of the Congress to that declaration and to urge my colleagues 
and the Nation as a whole to do all that we can to assist our Nation's 
veterans, including utilizing the employment assistance programs 
operating by many States and in California by the Employment 
Development Department.

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