Gene Taylor: “I met a kid from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. His last name is Rhodes. I asked him should we be here... I am keeping…”

“I met a kid from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. His last name is Rhodes. I asked him should we be here... I am keeping women from getting raped. I am keeping children from getting murdered. I am keeping old folks from getting drug out into the street and getting tortured at night. That is why I joined the United States Army, to be a good guy. Tonight we vote to commend the 250,000 young Americans, just like Private Rhodes, who are doing the very same thing. To my colleagues, I would say every other generation of Americans... voted to pay the cost of those wars right then and not stick the young Private Rhodeses with that bill. Let us not be the first generation of Americans that after we welcome the Private Rhodeses home, stick them with the bill from this war.”