Political Quotes

“I take the opportunity to come to the floor to just simply commemorate an event that is very important to the people of Guam, and that is the liberation of Guam from the hands of the Japanese during World War II. The actual liberation of Guam occurred on July 21, 1944, with the landing of troops from the Third Marine Division and the First Marine Provisional Brigade and the 77th Army Infantry. We paid tribute to this event yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery with about 200 people from the local Guam community as well as various officials from the Federal Government. We laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns, and joining with me in laying this wreath was General Krulak, the Commandant of the Marine Corps. Of course, this is entirely appropriate because it is in fact the Marines who were the shock troops of the landing which occurred 53 years ago on Guam. Among the Marines that landed on Guam on that day were Capt. Louis Wilson, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor and who, unfortunately, could not be with us yesterday, but he won the Congressional Medal of Honor on Guam.”