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Robert Dornan: “Today I was told, without a direct phone call, what we still have here, as they said in the movie, is a failure to…”

On the recordSeptember 26, 1996
Today I was told, without a direct phone call, what we still have here, as they said in the movie, is a failure to communicate... one human being at the north end of this building, gutted it out and referred to people like myself, who have given more than months, years of their life, 8 trips to Vietnam in my own case while the war was going on, narrating while the brother of a U.S.…
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Addressing frustrations over the handling of the POW-MIA protection act.

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