Robert Dornan: “I am so, pleased is not a strong enough word, I am so ecstatic today over this rescue in Bosnia that I am glad I have…”

“I am so, pleased is not a strong enough word, I am so ecstatic today over this rescue in Bosnia that I am glad I have got a Marine Corps sergeant sitting in the Speaker's chair today. Let me see that 1,000-yard stare, because as a former Air Force fighter pilot, peacetime to be sure, let me thank you for the whole Marine Corps in that superb rescue this morning, and wait till you get details tonight on CNN or C-SPAN or whatever, because I have got the bare outlines off the wire service stories, I called the Pentagon, they are having down in the cellar of the Rayburn Building a goodbye party for some of our great military people, liaison people who help us understand everything we can about our heroic men and women all around the world they will they cannot tell me much because they are hanging off the wire services' stories too. But let me put this in perspective for the Marine Corps and the Army and every fighter pilot in those days was either Marine, Navy, or Air Force, I mean Army Air Corps, there was no Air Force. I was going to finish my Okinawa special orders today, June 8, 1945, and it is interesting, fascinating that the Battle of Okinawa started on Easter Sunday in 1945, that was April 1, and it was no April Fool's Day for the bloodshed on those beaches.”