Dana Rohrabacher: “let me draw Members' attention to the job that the gentleman from California (Mr. Honda) is doing for these noble…”

“let me draw Members' attention to the job that the gentleman from California (Mr. Honda) is doing for these noble Americans. He did not have to do this, but he has put enormous energy into this bill to bring justice to the survivors of the Bataan Death March. He has my respect, and I am very, very proud to be working with the gentleman on this issue. I could not help but think as he read the definition of what is an American, that the gentleman from California (Mr. Honda) himself represents the essence of what he was reading: an American is someone who stands for justice first and foremost. Thank goodness we have people who are taking time to care about those people who defended our country. Eisenhower once said that any country that forgets its defenders will itself soon be forgotten. Mr. Speaker, there are no greater heroes that we have today than those heroes that survived the Bataan Death March. There is no group of survivors of any war to whom we owe a greater thanks; but yet who we have done a great injustice through our inaction, through our unwillingness as a government to step up to do what was right by them.”