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George H.W. Bush: No, I do that in church. No embarrassed, but maybe in public it's kind of a first or maybe third. No, I feel very…

On the recordJune 6, 1991
No, I do that in church. No embarrassed, but maybe in public it's kind of a first or maybe third. No, I feel very emotionally about the war and about having to send other people's sons and daughters halfway across the world and commit our troops to battle. So, I was trying to speak to them from the heart. Maybe I'm not too proud of myself, but I felt strongly. I'll never forget that day. I knew what was over the horizon in terms of our air war, and I stood there with the tears coming down my face, and that's the way it was. So, why not say it?
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George H.W. Bush
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