[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9615]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                 SALUTE TO OUR VETERANS ON MEMORIAL DAY

  (Mr. McNULTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McNULTY. Madam Speaker, as we approach Memorial Day, I again want 
to a salute our veterans. I was in Berlin in the spring of 1990 when 
the people were out there with their hammers and chisels taking down 
the Berlin Wall piece by piece, and then I listened to the East 
Berliners thank our American soldiers for their vigilance through the 
period of the Cold War.
  The following year in September of 1991, I was in Armenia when people 
went out in overwhelming numbers to vote for their independence from 
the former Soviet Union. Then I was with them the next day in the 
streets of Yerevan and they danced and shouted and sang, ``Ketse azat 
ankakh Hayastan,'' long live free and independent Armenia; and then 
pointing to the United States of America as their example of what they 
wanted to be as a democracy.
  So it is important for all of us to know that we owe our freedom here 
in the United States to our American soldiers but also hundreds of 
millions of people all around the world today are enjoying the 
blessings of freedom because of the sacrifices of American soldiers. We 
salute them all.

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