[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11193]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      U.S. FLAG MUST BE PROTECTED

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, it is Flag Day, and I rise in support of the 
Flag Protection Amendment. February 23, 1945, after surviving the 
bloodiest battle since Gettysburg, a platoon of marines trudged up 
Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima with a simple task, to raise the American 
flag above the devastation below.
  When the flag was raised by SGT Mike Strank and his platoon, history 
records that a thunderous cheer rose from our troops on land and on sea 
and in foxholes and on stretchers. By adopting the Flag Protection 
Amendment, we will raise Old Glory again.
  We will raise her above the decisions of a judiciary that were wrong 
in the law and the history of our values. We will raise her above the 
cynicism of our time. Out of respect for those who served beneath it 
and those who died within the sight of it, we must say that there are 
boundaries necessary to the survival of freedom.
  Let us pass the flag amendment and restore to Old Glory the modest 
protection of the law that she represents.

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