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Robert Dornan: “Here is a book that I came across. I belong to the Military Book Club, along with the History Book Club and lots of…”

On the recordMarch 10, 1995
Here is a book that I came across. I belong to the Military Book Club, along with the History Book Club and lots of other political book clubs, and I got a little book in the mail a couple of weeks before I left for Europe on an Army aircraft with the Secretary of the Army, Togo West, and sitting next to me, Harry Canard, as a 29-year-old full Eagle, full bird colonel, who was G3 operations for General McAuliffe, trapped inside Bastogne, completely surrounded by the best of German Panzer units, demanding that they surrender, and of course McAuliffe turned to his G3 in the headquarters as they read the German surrender demand and McAuliffe says, Well, this is nuts, nuts to them. What should I do, Harry? General Canard, by the way, took the 1st Cavalry to Vietnam in 1965. Quite a man, and young 28-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Lynn still made bull in April a couple weeks before his birthday.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California
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Discussing historical perspectives on World War II during a speech.

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