John Dingell: “I was one of those American veterans and Members of this body who joined hundreds of thousands of others, Americans…”

“I was one of those American veterans and Members of this body who joined hundreds of thousands of others, Americans, Britons, French, Belgians, Poles, Czechs, and others in assembling on the beaches of Normandy to celebrate an event of great courage and of great moment in the history of this world. I am proud that our President led that delegation. I am proud that he remembered D-day. I am proud that he joined us in honoring those great Americans and soldiers and veterans of other nations in the great crusade led by General Eisenhower. A bipartisan group of Members of this body joined the President at the site of this great invasion. It was one of the greatest and most moving celebrations of courage, of human dedication to freedom and liberty, that I have ever had the privilege of seeing. And it was an event in which there was no whit of partisanship. It was an event which commemorated an event 50 years ago in which thousands of Americans, British, French, and others died for liberty and freedom.”