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On the recordMarch 2, 2022
Even as we grow more distance from many of the events, let us say at the outset that we continue to grieve and remember the 17 sailors who died on the USS McCain and Fitzgerald in the collisions of 2017.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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Acknowledging the tragic loss of sailors in naval collisions.

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