[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8556]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           SUPPORT OUR TROOPS

  (Mr. CUNNINGHAM asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, the American people quite often are seen 
from time to time from both civilian businesses and the military with 
some bad actors. We all condemn those. The problem that I have is that 
too many people focus on just the bad actors and forget about the 
people that serve us well both in civilian business and in the 
military. I have served in the military. What irks me is that people 
that condemn our military are generally the people that have not served 
themselves. They are generally the people that continually vote against 
defense, which most of goes to the families to support them coming 
back. They continually vote against intelligence. And then they have 
the gall to stand up here and chastise our military. Mr. Speaker, I 
think that is wrong. I am proud of the men and women that serve in our 
military. I think if those individuals would speak about their 
accomplishments more, maybe we would all be better off.

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