[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2342]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                      HONORING OUR BRAVE VETERANS

  (Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Madam Speaker, last week when we 
were home I had the occasion to present various medals and awards to 
veterans in my district. The Fifth Congressional District is home to 
the highest number of veterans of any Member of Congress. There were 
medals and awards for those who served in World War II, the Korean War 
and Vietnam.
  We need to stop and pause and certainly thank our veterans from all 
of those wars, thank them for the freedoms that we, as Americans, enjoy 
today. Without a doubt, these people came home from being at war, 
started their lives, built our country into the great country that it 
is today, and never really asked for anything back from their country. 
They did not get a lot of the medals that they deserved.
  Now that they are getting a little bit older, they are getting 
perhaps a little sentimental and they wanted to have those medals. We 
worked with the veterans and got the medals and presented those awards 
in the majority of the eight counties that I represent.
  My hat is off to the veterans of all of the wars and those young men 
and women currently serving today. We thank them for their bravery.

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