Dana Rohrabacher: “I gladly join my fellow colleagues in supporting this commemoration and this resolution. I grew up in a military family.…”

“I gladly join my fellow colleagues in supporting this commemoration and this resolution. I grew up in a military family. I remember when I was a young boy, I was 10 years old, my father was stationed in Japan. We lived in a small enclave of military families. All the kids' fathers were pilots, and one day the news came that the Chinese had shot down one of our friend's father's plane, and I still remember the heartache and the crying and the tears just as a little boy. I remember seeing that and wondering what it was all about. But this family would no longer have a father, a wife would no longer have a husband, and there would be a vacant place around the Thanksgiving table and the Christmas tree. These sacrifices that our military people make, I do not think anybody knows the name of that gentleman and many gentlemen like him, men and women who have given their lives during the Cold War and since in order to protect our country. They are truly heroes; and wherever they go, whatever job there is in the military, they know they are taking the chance, the chance of giving their lives and leaving their own loved ones alone in order to protect all of us and our loved ones. And how much greater tribute and how much greater sacrifice and how much greater service can there be than that? So this resolution and the sacrifice of the American sailors who perished and suffered injuries on the U.S.S. Cole is something that we have to commemorate.”