[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27402]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  HONORING AND THANKING THE VETERANS OF 7TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF 
                               TENNESSEE

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, we are coming up on Veterans' Day, and I 
rise today to honor and say thank you to the over 65,000 men and women 
who are veterans and constituents of Tennessee's Seventh Congressional 
District. I thank them one and all for their service, for their 
sacrifice, their valor and for their commitment to duty, which has been 
to stand vigilant, strong and to protect our freedom that we enjoy.
  I also want to say thank you to our troops and to their families. Our 
Seventh Congressional District is home to many of the families from 
Fort Campbell, who are part of the 101st Airborne and the Special 
Operations Forces, and we are also home to many of the National 
Guardsmen and the Reservists and their families who are deployed and 
who are now defending freedom in Afghanistan and Iraq.
  We appreciate their sacrifice. We thank them for the job that they 
are doing so very well.

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