[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11441]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              MEMORIAL DAY

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I wanted to take this 
opportunity to thank America's veterans and to offer my sympathy to 
those families that will experience for the first time and for many, 
many times the difficulty of Memorial Day, for they are the families 
that are now suffering the loss of a loved one who has fallen in battle 
or in the service of his or her country.
  Today, we had the honor of traveling to Arlington Cemetery, as I said 
earlier, to place the wreath of honor in honor of women who have fallen 
in battle. The good news about America is that in times of conflict, 
however we may disagree on the policy, we are united behind the men and 
women who leave their homes and leave their families and leave all that 
they love to be able to serve this country.
  My sadness, however, is that there are so many that are coming back 
in caskets covered and draped by the American flag. And so I think it 
is extremely important that on this Memorial Day, we are united in our 
honoring and our admiration and our affection for those who have lost 
their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  May God bless them, God bless their families, and God bless the 
United States of America.

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