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Steven Kuykendall: “It is great today as a Member of Congress to be able to recognize on the Vietnam War's 25th anniversary the service of…”

On the recordApril 10, 2000
It is great today as a Member of Congress to be able to recognize on the Vietnam War's 25th anniversary the service of those men and women who served with the gentleman from California (Mr. Thompson) and myself in that Southeast Asian conflict. Today, I now have a daughter who serves, and I now recognize what my parents must have thought when they put me on a plane for several trips to Asia. It is a different feeling and yet it is the same feeling you get whether you are doing it today or you were doing it 25 years ago or 25 years before that. That is the reason we have these recognitions, because a Nation that ever forgets to recognize that service has taken one step down a path we do not want to be on. I would like to encourage everybody, today in this resolution, to recognize Vietnam veterans.
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Steven Kuykendall
Republican · California
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Recognizing the service of Vietnam veterans on the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam War.

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