[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4728]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            SUPPORT FOR THE NATIONAL GUARDSMEN AND RESERVES

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, as our Nation mobilizes in every way, and 
most especially our military, to confront the war on terror, as our 
soldiers in numbers exceeding 150,000 prepare in a theater overseas for 
possible confrontation, a brief word about the citizen-soldier and 
their role, National Guardsmen and Reserves in this effort, fully 
60,000 of which have not only been activated but deployed to that 
theater overseas.
  This week, the historic base, Camp Atterbury in my own district, 
became the very first State-owned National Guard facility to be 
activated as a mobilization site in the war on terror. My 
congratulations to Governor Frank O'Bannon and the Indiana Army 
National Guard and the 38th Division for their stewardship of this 
facility, and it is all of our hope and prayer that the men who pass 
through that place through mobilization go with God and go prepared and 
come home to their families and their grateful communities soon.

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