Political Quotes

“I rise in support of this resolution, supporting a day of recognition for Cold War Veterans. I am very proud to have authored it and sponsored it. It recognizes American heroes who protected our Nation during one of the most perilous times in our history. The Cold War began on September 2, 1945, and ended on December 26, 1991, and the years in between were fraught with peril. I, along with many of my colleagues, grew up in the Cold War. I remember going to elementary school and hearing the air raid drill, going out into a hall, bracing myself against a wall covering my head with my arms. There were millions of American children who went through those exercises. Tens of thousands of nuclear warheads were aimed between the United States and the Soviet Union. The world was on hair trigger. And while wars were fought and combat raged in places like Korea and Vietnam, those nuclear missiles never fired. The nuclear conflagration between the United States and the Soviet Union never occurred. It never occurred because of those heroes of the Cold War.”