Robert Dornan: “I want to talk this evening--this evening, it is 6 at night in Los Angeles, Mr. Speaker, and only 4 in the afternoon in…”

“I want to talk this evening--this evening, it is 6 at night in Los Angeles, Mr. Speaker, and only 4 in the afternoon in Hawaii--I want to speak tonight about one of the most heartbreaking, agonizing, complex stories of American history that has haunted me my entire life and came to another tragic conclusion this evening. It is the story of the world's greatest Nation, the United States of America, the most noble Nation to ever exist, with all due respect to the mother country, Great Britain, to wonderful little homogeneous nations like Norway or New Zealand, and to a multilingual nation who has avoided war and persecution for almost 500 years, Switzerland. Given our size, the problems we have overcome, the destructive moral evil that destroyed our morality for our first four score and 7 years, then four score and 10 years, then a century, then another century of neglect, slavery and its aftermath, we have overcome so much. And just in this century, when we could have been isolationists, and were at first, we entered a war called the Great War. And because it broke out again, bringing fathers back into conflict with their own sons, World War II, we put Roman numeral one on the Great War, where my father won three Wound Chevrons, now called Purple Hearts.”