[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27265]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        CONTEMPLATE THE WAR DEAD

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, it is easy to come into this House and 
forget what is going on out in the world, but on Friday when I got back 
to my office, I received a phone call from one of my constituents who 
had received a notification on Sunday that her son was killed in Iraq. 
Talking to this woman and understanding how she had felt, she had 
marched against the war, but her son believed that he was doing the 
right thing for this country. He believed that what he was doing was 
important, even though his parents thought that the war was not the 
right thing to be doing.
  I think that as we go forward with a President who refuses to look at 
how to change the situation over there, we risk more and more of these 
deaths. We had them on Sunday. We had them on Monday, and I think we 
ought to take a moment to be silent and contemplate the war dead.

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