[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8329]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  2000
                MEMORIAL DAY: REMEMBERING OUR WAR HEROES

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Veterans Day is the day we honor our 
veterans who go overseas and they return. Memorial Day is the day we 
honor our soldiers, our sailors, our airmen who go overseas and they 
don't return. Monday is Memorial Day, and all Americans should give 
homage and honor, praise and prayers for those that served and gave up 
their lives for the rest of us. They gave their youth for our future.
  Not far from where we are today, right down The Mall, is the newest 
memorial on The Mall; it's the World War II Memorial. It's a massive 
memorial to those World War II--the ``Greatest Generation''--veterans 
that served. On the back wall there it looks like a bronze plate. And 
if you get closer, Mr. Speaker, you notice that it's not a bronze plate 
at all, but there are thousands of stars; 400,000 stars on the World 
War II Memorial, and each one of those represents a young American that 
went overseas in the great World War II and did not return; 400,000 
Americans. Those are just a few that have served and given their lives.
  Patriotism is a good thing. This Memorial Day we praise those who 
served, and we praise the families of those who served.
  And that's just the way it is.

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