[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5173]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              THE MARINES

  Mr. THOMAS. Mr. President, I will make some comments in morning 
business. First of all, I had the privilege this morning of attending a 
meeting of Marines, which we have periodically, and I was very pleased 
to listen to a report from the commandant about the current situation 
in Iraq and Afghanistan. Certainly, he is very pleased with what is 
happening there with regard to our military, what they are able to do 
and accomplish there. We do not hear much about the good stuff that is 
going on. We hear, of course, the news on bad things. It was an 
excellent report. Certainly we are very proud of our Marines and all of 
our service personnel there.

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