[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 8470-8471]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      HONORING THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN

  (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 had an honor today that will 
be forever embedded in my heart; and

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that was to watch the Tuskegee Airmen, of which my father-in-law, 
Phillip Ferguson Lee, was an active and proud member, be honored with 
the Congressional Gold Medal.
  I thank with all of my heart Representative Charlie Rangel, Senator 
Levin, and all of the participants who commemorated and celebrated 
brave men who sacrificed their life in World War II but yet were 
treated worse than the Nazi soldiers who were captured and held here in 
the United States. In spite of color and racism, they rose to the 
highest occasion.
  That is why I am so proud to be part of this majority that supported 
an emergency supplemental that would dignify our troops and bring them 
home with success and a budget today that was voted with the largest 
amount for dollars for veterans in the history of the United States.
  Thank you to my father-in-law, Phillip Ferguson Lee, and all the 
Tuskegee Airmen who now are so proud to receive the Congressional Gold 
Medal. But, more importantly, they are proud to be Americans, World War 
II veterans who never, never denied their leadership in the United 
States of America. God bless them and God bless the United States of 
America.

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