[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8844]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              A MONUMENT FOR THE WARRIORS OF WORLD WAR II

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, there are great monuments on the mall. 
All were earned, all admired. America has a rich history indeed. But if 
any one group of American patriots deserve a parcel of that hallowed 
ground on the mall, it is the fighting men and women of World War II.
  Washington and Jefferson founded America. Lincoln preserved America. 
But I say to my colleagues, the fighting men and women, those who 
survived and those who were killed in action, they saved America. An 
America that fails to recognize the liberation from tyranny by these 
great warriors is an America that takes for granted our great freedoms.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the lives and the legacy of the fighting 
men and women of World War II that not only saved America, they saved 
the entire world.

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