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Trent Franks: “I guess I would only associate my own feelings with the way that the gentleman has pointed out the heroism of our…”

On the recordJune 15, 2004
I guess I would only associate my own feelings with the way that the gentleman has pointed out the heroism of our soldiers. As it happens, just the Iraqi conflict about 3,700 soldiers have received Purple Hearts, 4 Distinguished Service Crosses, 127 Silver Stars, and 16,000 Bronze Stars and we had 7 that did bad things in the Abu Ghraib prison. I think it is a great reminder to those of us in the political atmosphere that it is not those of us in this body that are the ones that bought freedom, even though there are some of the veterans here, but it is those who went out on the front lines and poured their blood out on the battlefields that bought our freedom.
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Trent Franks
Arizona
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the heroism of soldiers in the context of the Iraqi conflict.

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