[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10157]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     D-DAY AND THE YOUNG AMERICANS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, the silent ocean roar now covers the 
battlefields on the shores of France.
  They fought for a people they did not know in a place they had never 
been and consecrated the soil of freedom by the self-sacrifice of their 
own blood.
  There are 9,386 Americans buried on the cliffs of Normandy, France. 
1,557 are still missing 62 years later. They gave their youth so Europe 
could have a tomorrow. They came not to conquer, but to set a people 
free. That D-day invasion of France was the beginning of the liberation 
of Europe.
  Those that served that day jumped from the sky in the darkness, or 
went ashore in the face of massive gunfire. They were the young 
Americans that landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944. They defeated the 
evil forces of the Axis and they did not come back until it was over 
over there.
  History refers to those that died and those that lived as the 
Greatest Generation. They are our fathers and our grandfathers. They 
defended the honor of liberty and proved there are some things worth 
fighting for, and there are some things worth dying for. And that's 
just the way it is.

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