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Charles Skelton: “Mr. Speaker, it was the Roman orator Cicero who once said that gratitude is the greatest of all virtues. This morning in…”

On the recordOctober 18, 2000
Mr. Speaker, it was the Roman orator Cicero who once said that gratitude is the greatest of all virtues. This morning in a ceremony next to the U.S.S. Eisenhower at Norfolk, Virginia, commemorating the lives of those 17 sailors, feelings came to each of us; feelings of sympathy for the families of those injured and those deceased, admiration for the sailors who carried on and saved their ship and did so well by doing their duty, and anger, anger at those who perpetrated this deed. And yet that anger will fade into determination to cause America to seek justice. I will repeat the words of Admiral Robert Natter, as he spoke during the ceremony: 'All Americans should remember. Remember the Cole.'
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Charles Skelton
Democratic · New Jersey
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Commemorating the lives of sailors lost in the USS Cole attack.

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