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On the recordJune 19, 2018
We owe this to the women and men who serve our country in uniform, to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice fighting this war, and to those who perished on September 11, 2001, in my home city of New York.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel honors those who served and sacrificed in the Afghanistan war and on 9/11.

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