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Robert Dornan: “When people watch this floor, they expect promises to be kept. I made a promise the day before yesterday when I returned…”

On the recordJuly 18, 1996
When people watch this floor, they expect promises to be kept. I made a promise the day before yesterday when I returned from the funeral of the highest ranking Navy ace in history, the Navy's ace of aces, Capt. David McCampbell. I said, because it was only a 5-minute special order, that I would read this beautiful eulogy from a fellow Medal of Honor winner, a fellow Medal of Honor winner to Captain McCampbell. Barney Barnum from a different war won his as a 24-year-old Marine company commander, actually a platoon leader who took over the company when his commander died in his arms. It was such a beautiful eulogy I said I would read it on the floor tonight. I will read as much of it as I can, but the business at hand that requires some comment is yet what will turn out to be another terrorist horror.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California
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Discussing a promise to read a eulogy for Captain David McCampbell during a floor speech.

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