Political Quotes

“there are 1,917 American military personnel who have given their lives in the service of our Nation in Iraq and Afghanistan. We owe these brave men and women, and their families, a debt of gratitude that can never fully be repaid. It is our responsibility to honor the ultimate sacrifice that our men and women in uniform have made while serving our country. We often invoke their sacrifices in general. Seldom do we take the time to thank them individually. My colleagues and I would like to take this hour and recognize these individual heroes on the floor of the people's House, their House. Over the next hour, and continuing next week until we finish, we will read the name and rank of each servicemember who has fallen in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of war. By reading these names into the Congressional Record, we hope to ensure that our Nation never forgets their sacrifice, and their families will know that their loved ones will be part of the official Congressional Record. As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, your loved one, ``stands in the unbroken line of Patriots who have dared to die that freedom might live, and grow and increase its blessings. Freedom lives, and through it he lives, in a way that humbles the undertakings of most men.'' God bless, and keep each of the brave Americans whose memory we now honor. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank).”